Simone Pignoni

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Simone Pignoni ( April 17, 1611 - December 16, 1698 ) was an Italian Baroque painter .

Pignoni first attended Latin school and then, at his father's request, worked in a relative's bookbinding workshop, where he found his pleasure in painting heraldic arms. Domenico Passignano , who often appeared in the bookbindery, noticed the boy's talent. On his recommendation, he began an apprenticeship as a painter with Fabrizio Boschi , where he did not stay but switched to the more academic Passignano. But his last teacher, Francesco Furini, was essential for his style .

Self portrait

His contemporaries criticized his voluptuous ladies and mannered subjects, in particular his self-portrait, in which he dressed a skeleton on canvas with flesh using a brush. The similarity of the style with Furini was also noted. His biographer Francesco Gori describes him as “an imitator of his [Furinis] dissolute imagination”.

His student Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani also wrote a biography.

literature

  • Francesca Baldassari: Simone Pignoni (Firenze, 1611 - 1698) Artema, Turin 2008, ISBN 978-88-8052-102-0 .
  • Gerhard Ewald: Simone Pignoni, a Little-Known Florentine Seicento Painter. In: The Burlington Magazine. Vol. 106 No. 734 (1964), pp. 218-226.
  • Antonio Francesco Gori : Elogio di Francesco Furini. In: Museo Fiorentino, che contienei Ritratti de'Pittori. Vol. 9. Florence 1756, pp. 87-92.
  • Rodolfo Maffeis : Ritratto di Simone Pignoni. In: Proporzioni. Annali della Fondazione Roberto Longhi. Vol. 5 (2004), pp. 87-124.

Web links

Commons : Simone Pignoni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “imitatore delle sue licenziose invenzioni” In: Francesco Gori: Elogio di Francesco Furini. 1756, p. 88.
  2. ↑ Codex Palatinus 451, c. 6 t. -7 r , Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana , Rome
personal data
SURNAME Pignoni, Simone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1611
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1698