Bartolomeo Signorini (1674–14 March 1742) was an Italian painter of the late-

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

, active in mainly in

Verona Verona ( ; ; or ) is a city on the Adige, River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 255,131 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region, and is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and in Northeast Italy, nor ...

. He was born and trained in Verona under Santo Prunati and later

Giambettino Cignaroli Giambettino Cignaroli (Verona, July 4, 1706 – Verona, December 1, 1770) was an Italian painter of the Rococo and early Neoclassicism, Neoclassic period. Biography He was a pupil of Santo Prunato and Antonio Balestra and active mostly in t ...

. In a review of Veronese painters, he is described as:

as a man of value (who gave) evident signs of not vulgar ingenuity. He invented with spirit, drew manually, but not disproportionately, colored reasonably, and knotted the drapery with panache ... but as he idled and dreamed of new ways, he set out from the good path, and he made certain paintings in a truly barbaric manner, especially over the last few years ... he abandoned himself to a race of idleness: procuring sooner to patch up old paintings, and buy, and resell them together with his friend Baroni.

He appears to have met criticism for an altarpiece he painted for the church of San Bovo, and painted less.Notizie e Documenti di Giambettino Cignaroli
in Monumento Storici, by Giuseppe Biadego, notes by Cignaroli, Venice (1890), page 38.

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