Niccolò Circignani
Niccolò Circignani called il Pomarancio ( * ca 1530 in Pomarance, † 1597/1599 in Città della Pieve ) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist.
His first works were documented around the year 1562 in Rome, where he painted the frescoes in the Vatican Belvedere along with Santi di Tito.
As a result, find his work in Orvieto ( 1570), Umbertide ( 1572), Città di Castello ( 1573-1577 ) and in Città della Pieve.
He collaborated with Hendrick van den Broeck in the cathedral of Orvieto. 1568 he painted the frescoes in the church Maestà delle Volte in Perugia, also the resurrection ( 1569 Panicale) and the Annunciation (1577, now in the Pinacoteca di Città di Castello).
He painted frescoes with mythological themes such as the judgment of Paris, the story of Aeneas in collaboration with Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi at the Palazzo della Corgna in Castiglione del Lago.
1579 he returned to Rome to decorate with Mathijs Bril the Sala della Meridiana in the Tower of the Winds in the Vatican. In the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli he painted in the Cappella della Pietà and in the Cappella di San Paolo, the frescoes of the side walls.
From 1582 to 1583 he painted the frescoes in the Basilica of Santo Stefano Rotondo. It was 24 scenes, imitating the reliefs in yellowish tone and represent the history of St. Stephen. After he got the job on the outside wall of the church to freskieren representations of martyrdoms. The cycle begins with 32 images with the crucifixion of Jesus, and closes the martyrdom of Stephen, followed by an additional 30 images with the representations of the martyrdom of Catholic saints, some with dramatic details. A cycle with similar themes he created in the Church of Santi Nereo e Achilleo. At the same time to the work in Santo Stefano Rotondo, he frescoed the side walls of San Tommaso di Canterbury, the frescoes were later - like all of the old church - lost. In San Filippo Neri nel Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, he created the altarpiece of the high altar with the representation of the miracle of St. Filippo Neri.