Michelangelo Cinganelli, also known as Michele Cinganelli (

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

, circa 1558 - Florence, September 26, 1635) was an Italian painter.

Biography

He was a pupil or strongly influenced by

Bernardino Poccetti Bernardino Poccetti (26 August 1548 – 10 October 1612), also known as Barbatelli, was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker of etchings. Biography Born in Florence, he was initially trained as a decorator of facades and ceilings, enrol ...

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 San Domenico is a Romanesque and Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church located in the Piazza of the same name, with a north flank of the nave parallel to Corso Silvani Fedi, in Pistoia, region of Tuscany, Italy. History The church structure dates t ...

. 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

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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 {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub