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See also:CIGOLI (or C1vo1a), LODOVICO CARDI DA (1559-1613)
, See also:Italian painter, architect and poet, was See also:born at See also:Cigoli in See also:Tuscany
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Educated under Alessandro See also:Allori and Santi di Tito, he formed a See also:peculiar See also:style by the study at See also:Florence of See also:Michelangelo, See also:Correggio, See also:Andrea del Sarto and See also:Pontormo
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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 See also:production of a See also:wax See also:model of certain anatomical preparations, induced an See also:alienation of mind which affected him for three years
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At the end of this See also:period he visited See also:Lombardy, whence he returned to Florence
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There he painted an " Ecce Homo," in competition with Passignani and See also:Caravaggio, which gained the See also:prize
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This See also:work was afterwards taken by See also:Bonaparte to the Louvre, and was restored to Florence in 1815
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Other important pictures are—a " St See also:Peter Healing the Lame See also:Man," in St Peter's at See also:Rome; a " See also:Conversion of St See also:Paul," in the See also: |
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