Ludovico Cigoli
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.
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 .
Works (selection)
- Santa Maria Novella , Chiostro Grande Florence: Fresco Christ in Limbo (1581)
- San Marco (Florence) : Architectural design of the right side chapel (1594)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York): Adoration of the Shepherds (1599)
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna) Lamentation of Christ (1599)
- Palazzo Medici Riccardi (Florence): Portrait of Cosimo I de Medici (1600)
- Palazzo Giuli-Rosselmini-Gualandi (Pisa): Hieronymus (around 1603)
- Santa Maria Maggiore , Cappella Paolina (Rome) Dome fresco Madonna and Apostles (1612)
- St. Peter's Basilica (Rome): Peter heals a leper
- San Paolo fuori le Mura (Rome): Conversion of Paul
- Villa Borghese (Rome): fresco Cupid and Psyche
- Uffizi Gallery (Florence): Martyrdom of Saint Stephen, Venus and Satyr, Sacrifice of Isaac and Stigmata of Francis
- Palazzo Nonfinito (Florence): Design of the architecture of the inner courtyard
- Chiesa di Sant'Agostino (Colle Val d'Elsa): Pieta and saints
literature
- Miles Chappell: CARDI, Lodovico, detto il Cigoli (Civoli). In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 19: Cappi-Cardona. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1976.
- K. Busse: Cigoli, Ludovico, origin. Lod. Cardi da Cigoli . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 588-592 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Lexicon of Art. Volume 3, Verlag Karl Müller, Erlangen 1994, ISBN 3-86070-452-4 , p. 221 ff.
- Jasmin Mersmann: Lodovico Cigoli. Forms of Truth around 1600 , Berlin a. a .: de Gruyter 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-042558-1 .
Web links
- Ludovico Cardi da Cigoli. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved January 17, 2019 .
- artcyclopedia.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thieme-Becker mistakenly has September 12th as his birthday, but correctly June 8th as the day of his death.
- ↑ Membership directory of the academy
personal data | |
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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 |