Michelangelo Cinganelli, also known as Michele Cinganelli (

Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence ...

, circa 1558 - Florence, September 26, 1635) was an Italian painter.

Biography

He was a pupil or strongly influenced by

Bernardino Poccetti Bernardino Poccetti (26 August 1548 – 10 October 1612), also known as Barbatelli, was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker of etchings. Biography Born in Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region ...

of Florence. Along with

Orazio Riminaldi ''Selfportrait'', Uffizi Orazio Riminaldi (5 September 1593 – 19 December 1630) was an Italian painter who painted mainly history subjects in a Caravaggist style. Biography Riminaldi was born and died in Pisa. He was in Pisa first a pupil of ...

, he painted the four Evangelists and angels (1597) in the cupola of the

Cathedral of Pisa Pisa Cathedral (), officially the Primatial Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary (), is a medieval Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, Italy, the oldest of the three st ...

; a ''Birth of the Virgin'' and ''Annunciation'' (1598) in the choir; and decoration of the organ in 1602. He also painted in the church of

San Domenico, Pistoia San Domenico is a Romanesque architecture, Romanesque and Gothic architecture, Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church located in the Piazza of the same name, with a north flank of the nave parallel to Corso Silvani Fedi, in Pistoia, region of Tuscany, ...

. He is documented as working for the tapestry shop of the Medici in Florence. Cinganelli supervised the designs by

Ludovico Cigoli Lodovico or Ludovico Cardi (21 September 1559 – 8 June 1613), also known as Cigoli, was an Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist and early Baroque period, trained and active in his early career in Florence, and spending the last ...

for the principal chapel in the church of

Santa Felicita Santa Felicita (Church of St Felicity) is a Roman Catholic church in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy, probably the oldest in the city after San Lorenzo. In the 2nd century, Syrian Greek merchants settled in the area south of the Arno and are ...

in Florence, and frescoed the chapel in 1620. His family included the artists: Camillo (painter and wood-gilder), Benedetto (son of Michelangelo), and Antonio (son of Camillo).Encyclopedia Treccani
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 25 (1981), entry by Miles Chappel.

References

1550s births 1635 deaths Italian Mannerist painters 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Artists from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub