Ludovico Cigoli

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Self-portrait with a letter to Maria de 'Medici , 1600, Porczynski Collection , Warsaw

Ludovico Cigoli , actually Lodovico Cardi da Cigoli (born September 21, 1559 in Castelvecchio di Cigoli (today San Miniato , district of Cigoli); † June 8, 1613 in Rome ) was an Italian poet, painter, sculptor and architect of the transition from Mannerism to Baroque .

Life

The artist, who was born in Tuscany near the town of Cigoli near Empoli , came to the workshop of the painter Alessandro Allori at the age of 13 , where he stayed for four years. Poisoning forced him to go to his hometown to recover. Bernardo Buontalenti brought him back to Florence around 1579 in order to employ him as a painter in his workshop and to train him in architecture. Here he also met Santi di Tito , in whose workshop he transferred. Via Santi he acquired the painting style of the Michelangelo successor.

Palazzo Pitti (Florence): Ecce homo

His first major work was created around 1581, the fresco Christ in Limbo for the Great Cloister (chiostro grande) of the Church of Santa Maria Novella . From 1587 onwards there was an intensive examination of the work of Federico Baroccis . Around 1596 a further development step can be observed in that he developed his own, unmistakable style of the early baroque .

Around 1604 he moved to Rome to take part in the tender to design the facade of St. Peter's Church, which he lost to Carlo Maderno .

In 1608 he was again ordered back to Florence to take over the artistic direction for public decoration work. Numerous commissions from high personalities in Florence, Rome and numerous other places in Italy followed.

For Florentine art, Cigoli was of extraordinary importance as he introduced the Baroque style in Florence by overcoming Mannerism, which had been rigid for over half a century, and represented a milestone in art history for the Baroque style as a whole through a new type of surface treatment. As a poet, but also as an artist, he maintained a close friendship with Galileo Galilei .

There are 45 known works by Cigoli, including 30 dated works. Among his students are: Giovanni Biliverti , Sigismondo Coccapani , Andrea Commodi , Cristofano Allori , Filippo Paladini , probably also Domenico Fetti and Aurelio Lomi .

In 1603 he became a member of the Florentine Accademia della Crusca .

Ludovico Cigoli: Stigmata of Francis (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)

Works (selection)

Santa Maria Novella (Chiostro Grande): Christ in Limbo

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludovico Cigoli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thieme-Becker mistakenly has September 12th as his birthday, but correctly June 8th as the day of his death.
  2. ↑ Membership directory of the academy
personal data
SURNAME Cigoli, Ludovico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cardi da Cigoli, Lodovico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1559
PLACE OF BIRTH Castelvecchio di Cigoli
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1613
Place of death Rome