Giambettino Cignaroli (

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, July 4, 1706 – Verona, December 1, 1770) was an Italian painter of the

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and early Neoclassic period.

Biography

He was a pupil of Santo Prunato and

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and active mostly in the area of the Veneto. He became the director of the academy of painting and sculpture of Verona in December 1764. The Academy was subsequently known as '' Accademia Cignaroli''. Among his many pupils were Maria Suppioti Ceroni,

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, Saverio Dalla Rosa, Domenico Mondini,

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, and

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. His brother

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was also a painter. For the Austrian governor of Lombardy and a collector of antiquities, Count

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, Cignaroli painted two canvases on Greco-Roman episodes, a thematic preferred by Neoclassic painters: ''Death of Cato'' (1759) and ''Death of Socrates''. Giambettino was born into a family of artists, and this tradition continued after his death with his children. Artists from his family who were contemporaries and elders of Giambettino include his uncle Leonardo Seniore, and his two sons (cousins of Giambettino), Martino and Pietro.Arte e Storia
Turin (1908); ''La Famiglia dei Pittore Cignaroli'', by GF page 95-98.

Works

*''Martyr of Saints Felix and Fortunatus'' (1737), Bergamo Cathedral *''Apollo and Marsyas'' (1739) and the ''Sacrifice of Iphigenia'' (1741), Villa Pompei, Illasi, Verona *''Saint Helena'' (1741), Castelvecchio, Verona *''Saint Procolus Visiting Saints Fermus and Rusticus'' (1744), Bergamo Cathedral *''Virgin and Child With Saints Jerome and Alexander'' (1744), Chiesa dell'Ospedale, Bergamo *''Aurora'' (1748), Casa Fattori, Verona *''Death of Rachel'', Accademia, Venice *''Death of Socrates'' (1759) *''Death of Cato'' (1759) *''Sacrifice of Isaac'' *''The Travels of Moses'' *''Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 14 in Verona'' (1770)

References

Sources

*''Giambettino Cignaroli's Deaths of Cato and of Socrates'', Joseph Geiger. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte (1996) pp270–278. *''Studi sopra la storia della pittura italiana dei secoli xiv e xv e della scuola pittorica.'' By Cesare Bernasconi. Published 1864 (google books). Original from Oxford University {{DEFAULTSORT:Cignaroli, Giambettino 1718 births 1770 deaths Painters from Verona 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Rococo painters 18th-century Italian male artists