CIGOLI (or C1vo1a), LODOVICO CARDI DA (1559-1613)  , Italian painter, architect and poet, was born at Cigoli in Tuscany . Educated under Alessandro Allori and Santi di Tito, he formed a peculiar style by the study at Florence of Michelangelo, Correggio, Andrea del Sarto and Pontormo . Assimilating more of the second of these masters than of all the others, he laboured for some years with success; but the attacks of his enemies, and intense application to the production of a wax model of certain anatomical preparations, induced an alienation of mind which affected him for three years . At the end of this period he visited Lombardy, whence he returned to Florence . There he painted an " Ecce Homo," in competition with Passignani and Caravaggio, which gained the prize . This work was afterwards taken by Bonaparte to the Louvre, and was restored to Florence in 1815 . Other important pictures are—a " St Peter Healing the Lame Man," in St Peter's at Rome; a " Conversion of St Paul," in the church of San Paolo fuori le Mura, and a " Story of Psyche," in fresco, at the Villa Borghese; a " Martyrdom of Stephen," which earned him the name of the Florentine Correggio, a" Venus and Satyr," a " Sacrifice of Isaac," a " Stigmata of St Francis," at Florence . Cigoli, who was made a knight of Malta at the request of Pope Paul III., was a good and solid draughtsman and the possessor of a rich and harmonious palette . He died, it is said, of grief at the failure of his last fresco (in the Roman church of Santa Maria Maggiore), which is rendered ridiculous by an abuse of perspective .