Related Paintings of unknow artist :. | A View in the Island of Otaheite | Cauterskill Falls on the Catskill Mountains | Tomb and distant View of the Rajmahal Hills | Portrait of Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace | Portrait of Maharaja Chandulal,Chief Minister of the Nizam of Hyderabad,Nawab Ali Khan,Asaf Jah Iv |
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Andreas Edvard Disen
Norway (1845 -1923 ) - Painter
CIGNANI, Carlo
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1628-1719 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,
Paul Chenavard
Lyons 1807 - Paris 1895.