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- Born:
- May 15, 1628, Bologna, Papal States [Italy]
- Died:
- September 6, 1719, Forlì (aged 91)
- Movement / Style:
- Baroque art and architecture
- Bolognese school
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Cignani, Carlo: Satyr and Woman
Satyr and Woman, drawing in brown ink by Carlo Cignani, undated; in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Carlo Cignani
Italian painter
Carlo Cignani (born May 15, 1628, Bologna, Papal States [Italy]—died September 6, 1719, Forlì) was the last important painter to carry on the Bolognese Baroque tradition in his use of ample, generalized forms, fluent compositions, deep colours, and blended contrasts of light and shadow. Although trained in Bologna, mainly under Francesco Albani, he was chiefly influenced by Correggio. Cignani’s masterpiece, a fresco of the Assumption of the Virgin in the cupola of Forlì Cathedral, is closely based on Correggio’s cupola painting in Parma Cathedral.
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