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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 . 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 . 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 . At the end of this See also:period he visited See also:Lombardy, whence he returned to Florence . There he painted an " Ecce Homo," in competition with Passignani and See also:Caravaggio, which gained the See also:prize . This See also:work was afterwards taken by See also:Bonaparte to the Louvre, and was restored to Florence in 1815 . 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:church of See also:San See also:Paolo fuori le Mura, and a " See also:Story of See also:Psyche," in See also:fresco, at the See also:Villa See also:Borghese; a " Martyrdom of See also:Stephen," which earned him the name of the Florentine Correggio, a" See also:Venus and Satyr," a " See also:Sacrifice of See also:Isaac," a " Stigmata of St See also:Francis," at Florence . Cigoli, who was made a See also:knight of See also:Malta at the See also:request of See also:Pope Paul III., was a See also:good and solid draughtsman and the possessor of a See also:rich and harmonious See also:palette . He died, it is said, of grief at the failure of his last fresco (in the See also:Roman church of See also:Santa Maria See also:Maggiore), which is rendered ridiculous by an abuse of See also:perspective .

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