CARLO See also: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
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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
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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
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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
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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
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As a See also:man Cignani was eminently amiable, unassuming and generous
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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
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He accepted none of the honours offered him by the See also:duke of Parma and other princes, but lived and died an artist
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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
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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
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Touching for See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
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)
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His son Felice (1660-1724) and See also:nephew See also:Paolo (1709-1764) were also painters
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