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Giambettino Cignaroli

Virgin With Child And Saints

Leda And The Swan

Alexander The Great And The Deceased Wife Of Darius

Giambettino Cignaroli (Verona, July 4, 1706 – Verona, December 1, 1770) was an Italianpainter of the Rococo and early Neoclassic period.

Biography

He was a pupil of Santo Prunato and Antonio Balestra 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 Giovanni Battista Lorenzi, Saverio Dalla Rosa, Domenico Mondini, Domenico Pedarzoli, and Cristopher Unterberger.

His brother Giovanni Domenico Cignaroli was also a painter.

For the Austrian governor of Lombardy and a collector of antiquities, Count Karl von Firmian, Cignaroli painted two canvases on Greco-Roman episodes, a thematic preferred by Neoclassic painters: Death of Cato (1759) and Death of Socrates.

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