Carlo Cignani

Carlo Cignani ( born May 15, 1628 Bologna, † September 6, 1719 ) was an Italian painter. As the successor of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Cignani was the last great painter of the Bolognese school.

Life

Cignani was a pupil of the painter Battista Cairo and Francesco Albani. He also studied the works of Titian, Guido Reni, Correggio and the Carracci family of painters. Cignani had very early found his own style and in this - surpassed his teacher Albani and Battista by far - in the judgment of his contemporaries.

One of his first big jobs was the decoration of a hall of the Palazzo Farnese. In two monumental frescoes were Cignani King Francis I show how these affect the patient in transit through Bologna, and the collection of Pope Paul III. Duke Ranuccio of Parma commissioned Cignani with a painting " Immaculate Conception " for the donated by him Immaculate Conception Church. As Cignanis major work, the frescoes are still in the dome of the church of the Madonna del Fuoco in Forlì, where he worked for nearly twenty years; they represent the Assumption dar. Pope Clement XI. appointed him director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, which was founded in 1701 by Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, and the Duke of Parma struck Ranuccio Cignani knighted and raising him in the lower nobility. His last known work was The Birth of Jupiter. This work was commissioned for the Elector Johann Wilhelm, the Cignani 1708 completed it.

Works (selection)

  • Caritas (Turin Galleria Sabauda ) to 1665-70, 105 × 83 cm, canvas
  • Holy Kinship (Munich, Marienplatz altar northern transept Theatinerkirche ), 1676, approximately 850 × 440 cm, oil on canvas
  • Bacchus and Erigone (Kassel Art Gallery ), 1680, 75 × 63 cm, canvas
  • Flora ( Galleria Estense Modena ) for 1680-82, 54 × 67 cm, canvas
  • Achilles among the daughters of Lycomedes (Kassel Art Gallery ), 1685, 138 × 118 cm, screen
  • Caritas Romana ( " Cimon and Pero ", Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum), around 1690-95, 116 × 99 cm, canvas
  • Bacchus and Ariadne ( Pommersfelden castle white stone ) to 1702-10, 668 × 310 cm, ceiling fresco
  • The boy Jupiter is from the goat Amalthea nourished (Munich Alte Pinakothek ) to 1702-14, 220 × 55 cm, canvas
  • Birth of Jupiter ( Munich Pinakothek )
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