Michelangelo Cinganelli, also known as Michele Cinganelli (
Florence
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, circa 1558 - Florence, September 26, 1635) was an Italian painter.
Biography
He was a pupil or strongly influenced by
Bernardino Poccetti of Florence. Along with
Orazio Riminaldi, he painted the four Evangelists and angels (1597) in the cupola of the
Cathedral of Pisa
Pisa Cathedral ( it, Cattedrale Metropolitana Primaziale di Santa Maria Assunta; Duomo di Pisa) is a medieval Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, Italy, the oldest of the t ...
; a ''Birth of the Virgin'' and ''Annunciation'' (1598) in the choir; and decoration of the organ in 1602. He also painted in the church of
San Domenico, Pistoia. He is documented as working for the tapestry shop of the Medici in Florence. Cinganelli supervised the designs by
Ludovico Cigoli
Lodovico Cardi (21 September 1559 – 8 June 1613), also known as Cigoli, was an Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist and early Baroque period, trained and active in his early career in Florence, and spending the last nine years ...
for the principal chapel in the church of
Santa Felicita
Santa Felicita (Church of St Felicity) is a Roman Catholic church in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy, probably the oldest in the city after San Lorenzo. In the 2nd century, Syrian Greek merchants settled in the area south of the Arno and are th ...
in Florence, and frescoed the chapel in 1620.
His family included the artists: Camillo (painter and wood-gilder), Benedetto (son of Michelangelo), and Antonio (son of Camillo).
Encyclopedia Treccani
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 25 (1981), entry by Miles Chappel.
References
1568 births
1635 deaths
Mannerist painters
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
17th-century Italian painters
Painters from Tuscany
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