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CARLO CIGNANI (1628-1719)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 365 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CIGNANI (1628-1719)  , See also:Italian painter, was See also:born of a See also:noble See also:family at See also:Bologna, where he studied under Battista See also:Cairo, and afterwards under See also:Francesco See also:Albani . Though an intimate friend of the latter, and his most famous See also:disciple, See also:Cignani was yet strongly and deeply influenced by the See also:genius of See also:Correggio . His greatest See also:work, moreover, the " See also:Assumption of the Virgin," See also:round the See also:cupola of the See also:church of the Madonna della Fuoca at Forli, which occupied him some twenty years, and is in some respects one of the most remarkable See also:works of See also:art of the 17th See also:century, is obviously inspired from the more renowned See also:fresco of Correggio in the cupola of the See also:cathedral of See also:Parma . Cignani had some of the defects of his masters; his elaborate finish, his audacious artificiality in the use of See also:colour and in See also:composition, See also:mark the disciple of Albani; but he imparted to his work a more intellectual See also:character than either of his See also:models, and is not without other remarkable merits of his own . As a See also:man Cignani was eminently amiable, unassuming and generous . His success, however, made him many enemies; and the envy of some of these is said to have impelled them to deface certain of his works . He accepted none of the honours offered him by the See also:duke of Parma and other princes, but lived and died an artist . On his removal to Forli, where he died, the school he had founded at Bologna was See also:fain in some sort to follow its See also:master . His most famous pictures, in addition to the Assumption already cited, are—the " Entry of See also:Paul III. into Bologna "; the " See also:Francois I . Touching for See also:King's Evil "; a " See also:Power of Love," painted under a See also:fine See also:ceiling by See also:Agostino Carracci, on the walls of a See also:room in the ducal See also:palace at Parma; an " See also:Adam and See also:Eve " (at the See also:Hague); and two of " See also:Joseph and Potiphar's Wife " (at See also:Dresden and See also:Copenhagen) . His son Felice (1660-1724) and See also:nephew See also:Paolo (1709-1764) were also painters .

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