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Cignani, Carlo, Conte
(b Bologna, 15 May 1628; d Forlì, 6 Sept 1719). Italian painter and draughtsman. He was the leading master in Bologna during the later decades of the 17th century, commanding a position of authority comparable to that of Carlo Maratti in Rome. He bore the title of Conte, and his biographer Giovan Pietro Zanotti wrote that he ‘always worked for glory, not for need’. Zanotti’s emphasis on Cignani’s ‘new manner’ refers to the reflective, intimate mood of his art, presaged in the later pictures of Guido Reni and Guercino, and in those of Simone Cantarini. This gentle manner, which prevailed in the second half of the 17th century, marks a break with the more energetic style of earlier Bolognese classicism.
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- Cignani, Carlo, Conte
- Bologna, §II, 2: Art life and organization, after c 1400
- assistants
- patrons and collectors
- pupils
- Boni, Giacomo Antonio
- Caccianiga, Francesco
- Crespi (ii), Giuseppe Maria
- Franceschini, Marcantonio
- Galli-Bibiena, Ferdinando
- Galli-Bibiena, Francesco
- Galli-Bibiena, Maria Oriana
- Lamberti, Bonaventura
- Mancini, Francesco
- Mazza, Giuseppe
- Rivalz, Antoine
- Stern, Ignaz
- Taruffi, Emilio
- reproductive prints by others
- teachers
- works
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