Simone Pignoni

Simone Pignoni (* April 17, 1611, † December 16, 1698 ) was an Italian painter of the Baroque.

Pignoni first attended the Latin School and then, at the request of his father to work in the bookbinding workshop of a relative, where he found his pleasure in painting the coat of arms. Domenico Passignano, which appeared frequently in the bindery, noticed the talent of the boy. On his recommendation, he began an apprenticeship with a painter Fabrizio Boschi, but where he did not remain, but switched to the more academic Passignano. For his style but much was his last teaching Mr. Francesco Furini.

His contemporaries criticized his voluptuous ladies and mannered subjects, particularly his self- portrait, in which he holds a skeleton on the canvas using a brush with meat. The similarity of style with Furini was noticed. His biographer, Francesco Gori referred to him as " imitators of his [ Furinis ] dissolute imagination ".

Even his pupil Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani wrote a biography.