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Artists›Carlo Cignani

Carlo Cignani

1628–1719

Bologna

PaintingBaroque

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Carlo Cignani was an Italian painter. His innovative style, referred to as his 'new manner', introduced a reflective, intimate mood of painting and presaged the later pictures of Guido Reni and Guercino, as well as those of Simone Cantarini. This gentle manner marked a break with the more energetic style of earlier Bolognese classicism of the Bolognese School of painting.

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Baroque

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Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago

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Artworks (11)

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Five Putti Playing with a Goat (Bacchanalia)

1685 · Red chalk

6 3/4 x 10 11/16in. (17.1 x 27.1cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Praying Magdalene

1670 · Red chalk, with stumping, heightened with touches of white chalk, on pale blue laid paper

17.7 × 20.2 cm (7 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Studie voor een figuur van Mars

1660 · prepared paper, chalk

height: 342 cm, width: 215 cm

Rijksmuseum

Woman in Flight

1648 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over traces of red chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

16.2 × 15.5 cm (6 7/16 × 6 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Charity

1648 · Oil on copper

20 × 27 in. (50.8 × 68.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Saint John the Baptist with Lamb

1648 · Watercolor over black chalk, on tan laid paper, tipped onto cream laid paper

33.6 × 25.5 cm (13 1/4 × 10 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sleeping Christ Child Holding Cross

1648 · Black chalk, with stumping, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove board

13 × 13.9 cm (5 1/8 × 5 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Two Cloud-Borne Nude Female Figures (recto); Fragment of Reclining Figure (verso)

1648 · Red chalk, with traces of graphite (recto), and red chalk (verso), on ivory laid paper

22.8 × 31.8 cm (9 × 12 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Paolo Pagani

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Christoffel Jacobsz van der Laemen

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Baroque

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Rijksmuseum

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Art Institute of Chicago

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