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Description: | Carlo Cignani was the leading late seventeenth-century painter in Bologna, where he was born and studied under Giovanni Battista del Cairo and Francesco Albani. He worked there and in Rome until 1686, when he moved to Forli. He received many important commissions for paintings and frescoes and enjoyed international patronage. In this work based on a Roman story, Pero, the young woman wearing a turban, nourishes starving Cimon at her breast in a dark prison cell. The subject, known as Roman charity, was popular with seventeenth-century artists and patrons in Italy and the Netherlands. | Subjects: | Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri ix) figure; literature (Valerius Maximus | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Cignani, Carlo (Italian painter, 1628-1719) Æ After Attributed to British School Previously attributed to Guercino (Italian painter and draftsman, 1591-1666) Previously attributed to Italian School | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8732... | Go to resource |
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