CIGOLI, LUDOVICO

born Sept. 21, 1559, Cigoli died June 8, 1613, Rome in full Ludovico Cardi Da Cigoli Italian painter, architect, and poet whose work reflected the many crosscurrents in Italian art between the decline of Michelangelesque Mannerism and the beginnings of the Baroque. Cigoli worked both in Florence and in Rome. There are few consistent characteristics in his earlier work beyond some northern Italian strength of colour and lighting. He was an innovator in sentiment rather than in style and foreshadowed Baroque emotionalism. From 1595 onward he was influenced by the new realistic tendencies. These qualities are well illustrated in his Ecce Homo (c. 1607; Pitti Palace, Florence). His architecture (e.g., the court of the Palazzo Nonfinito, Florence, 1604) shows Palladian elements.