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Cigoli, self-portrait The Sacrifice of Isaac, by Ludovico Cigoli, c. 1607. Lodovico Cardi (21 September 1559 – 8 June 1613), also known as Cigoli, was an Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist and early Baroque period, trained and active in his early career in Florence, and spending the last nine years of his life in Rome.
Signed and dated ‘Lod. Cigoli F. 1610’, this painting was executed for Antonio Ricci, who became bishop of Arezzo in 1611. Shortly thereafter the work came into the possession of Scipione Borghese, probably as a gift from Ricci himself. The canvas depicts an episode from the Old Testament interpreted in a secular key, namely a bedroom scene in which Potiphar’s wife appears as a perfect ...
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Cardi, Ludovico. Castelvecchio di Cigoli, Tuscany, 1559 - Rome, 1613. A student of the Florentine painters Alessandro Allori (1535-1607) and Santi di Tito (1536-1602), and of the architect Bernardo Buontalenti (1536-1608). During the early 1580s Cigoli painted two lunettes in the Chiostro Grande of S. Maria Novella, Florence.
Artist: Cigoli (Ludovico Cardi) (Italian, Castello di Cigoli 1559–1613 Rome) Date: 1590–1610. Medium: Pen and dark brown ink, brush and brown wash, over leadpoint or black chalk, on three glued pieces of paper. Dimensions: sheet: 15 7/8 x 5 13/16 in. (40.4 x 14.8 cm) Classification: Drawings. Credit Line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1998
Italian, 1559 – 1613. Follow. Lodovico Cardi, also known as Cigoli, was an Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist and early Baroque period, trained and active in his early career in Florence, and spending the last nine years of his life in Rome. Lodovico Cardi was born at Villa Castelvecchio in Cigoli, Tuscany, whence the name by ...
Sep 21, 1559 - Jun 18, 1613. Lodovico Cardi, also known as Cigoli, was an Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist and early Baroque period, trained and active in his early career in Florence, and spending the last nine years of his life in Rome. Lodovico Cardi was born at Villa Castelvecchio in Cigoli, Tuscany, whence the name by ...
Ludovico Cardi, detto il Cigoli. Rome, 1986, pp. 145, 174, no. 45, ill., knows this painting only from photographs; compares the face of the Madonna to another female figure in a painting in Pistoia of the "Birth of the Madonna"; notes that there is a copy by Cristoforo Allori in the Monti collection, Rome.
