Antonio Circignani (1560–1620) was an

Italian painter Following is a list of Italian painters (in alphabetical order) who are notable for their art. A *Niccolò dell'Abbate (1509/1512–1571) *Giuseppe Abbati (1836–1868) * Angiolo Achini (1850–1930) * Pietro Adami (fl. c. 1730) *Eugenio Agn ...

of the late-

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Mannerism Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it ...

) period and early

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. Born in Città della Pieve

he is known also as Antonio ''Pomarancio''. He was the son of the painter

Niccolò Circignani Niccolò Circignani (c. 1517/1524 – after 1596) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerism, Mannerist period. Biography Born in Pomarance, he is one of three Italian painters called Pomarancio (disambiguation), Pomaranci ...

, and with his father, who died in 1588, he worked in

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. He was featured in the ''Vite'' published by

Giovanni Baglione Giovanni Baglione (; 1566 – 30 December 1643) was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. Although a prolific painter, Baglione is best remembered for his encyclopedic collection of biographies of the o ...

. One of his most famous paintings, Wedding of the Virgin, is found in the Saint Mary of Angels Basilica in Assisi, Italy.

Works

Other works include a ''Four Evangelists'' (''Quattro Evengalisti''), in Museo di San Francesco,

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; and ''Trinity'', in Chiesa della Santissima Trinità,

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Gallery

Papa Aniceto.jpg, Martyrdom of Pope Anicetus, frescoes at Chapel of Sant'Aniceto e Beata Vergine della Clemenza,

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, Rome

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* * 1560 births 1620 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Renaissance painters People from Città della Pieve {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub