Giambettino Cignaroli

Training under Santi Prunati is recorded. The recorded working language is Italian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Verona. Work by Giambettino Cignaroli is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest and Toledo Museum of Art.

He was a pupil of Santo Prunato and Antonio Balestra and active mostly in the area of the Veneto. He became the director of the academy of painting and sculpture of Verona in December 1764. The Academy was subsequently known as Accademia Cignaroli. Among his many pupils were Maria Suppioti Ceroni, Giovanni Battista Lorenzi, Saverio Dalla Rosa, Domenico Mondini, Domenico Pedarzoli, and Christopher Unterberger. His brother Giovanni Domenico Cignaroli was also a painter. For the Austrian governor of Lombardy and a collector of antiquities, Count Karl von Firmian, Cignaroli painted two canvases on Greco-Roman episodes, a thematic preferred by Neoclassic painters: Death of Cato (1759) and Death of Socrates. Giambettino was born into a family of artists, and this tradition continued after his death with his children. Artists from his family who were contemporaries and elders of Giambettino include his uncle Leonardo Seniore, and his two sons (cousins of Giambettino), Martino and Pietro.

• Martyr of Saints Felix and Fortunatus (1737), Bergamo Cathedral • Apollo and Marsyas (1739) and the Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1741), Villa Pompei, Illasi, Verona • Saint Helena (1741), Castelvecchio, Verona • Saint Procolus Visiting Saints Fermus and Rusticus (1744), Bergamo Cathedral • Virgin and Child With Saints Jerome and Alexander (1744), Chiesa dell'Ospedale, Bergamo • Aurora (1748), Casa Fattori, Verona • Death of Rachel, Accademia, Venice • Death of Socrates (1759) • Death of Cato (1759) • Sacrifice of Isaac • The Travels of Moses • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 14 in Verona (1770)

The authorities additionally record the headings Gio. Bettino Cignaroli, Giovanni Bettino Cignaroli, Giovann Battista Bettini Cignaroli, Gianbettino Cignaroli and Giovanni Battista Cignaroli. His recorded language was Italian. Other recorded relations include Diomiro Cignaroli and Giovanni Domenico Cignaroli.