Carlo Cignani
Carlo Cignani (1628 – 1719, Italian) Venus And Cupid Joseph And Potiphar’s Wife The Fall of Man c. 1700 Oil on canvas, 312 x 197 cm Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest Italian painter and draughtsman. He was a pupil of Albani, but his style is closer to that of Guido Reni and he became the main force in upholding the tradition of Bolognese classicism into the 18th century. He was the leading master in Bologna during the later decades of the 17th century, commanding a position of authority comparable to that of Carlo Maratti in Rome. He bore the title of Conte, and his biographer Giovan Pietro Zanotti wrote that he 'al...