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 46 CHIAEl— CIMABUE, Adoration of the Magi. Golonna and Barberini Palaces, frescoes. GHIABINI, Mabc Antonio, 6. near Bologna, 1652, d. 1730. Bolognese School. A pupil of Francesco Quaino and Domenico Santi. He painted ar- ohitectural views and landscapes, in which Sigismondo Gaula frequently inserted the figures. He executed many works for the Palaces of Bo- logna; and at Milan, and Vienna. CHIAVISTELLI, Jacopo, b, at Flo- rence, 1618, d, 1698. Tuscan School. A pupil of Fabrizio Boschi and of Michelangelo Golonna. He painted architectural and perspective views, in fresco and in oil, at Florence, in the Palazzo Gerretani, &e. GIAMPELLI, Agostino, h. at Flo- rence, 1578, d. 1640. Tuscan School. A pupil of Santo di Titi, a painter of great reputation at Borne in the pon- tificate of Clement Vni. Works, Rome, Santa Prassede, the Grucifixion : Sta. Maria in Trastevere, on the walls of the Apsis, Angels : the Qeshj some frescoes: Sto. Stefano di Pescia, the Visitation. GIGNANI, Cav, Gonte Caslo^ b, at Bologna, May 25, 1628, d. at Forli, Sept. 6, 1710. Bolognese School. Al- bani was his principal master; but he studied also the works of Correggio and of Baphael with great assiduity, and became the most distinguished painter of Bologna of his time: his biographer calls him The Apelles of his age. His works are graceful and correct, but eminently academic ; extremely pretty, but deficient in the substantial. He has been called the last of the Bolog- nese ; he excelled in fresco and in oil. His son Felice Gignani was his assist- ant and imitator. Works. Forli, Gupola of the Ma- donna del Fuoco, the Assumption of the Virgin. Other works at Parma, Florence, Urbino, &o., and in many European galleries. {Zanelli,) GIGNABOLI, GiAHBETTmo, 5. at Salo, near Verona, 1706, d. 1770. Ve- netian School. Apupilof Santo Prunati and Antonio Balestra. He painted in the manner of Maratta, though unequal to that master in eoloming. He was one of the most distinguished of the Italian oil-painters of the eighteenth century, and the most eminent of his time. Inl769, the Emperor, Joseph n^ visited Gignaroli in his studio, and re- marked afterwards, that in Verona he had seen two very rare things — ^the Amphitheatre, and the first painter of Europe. In Sant' Antonio Abate, at Par- ma, is the Flight into Egypt, one of his best works ; there are others at Verona, Pontremoli, Pisa, &c. {^BevUacqua^ Lanzif Fiorillo,) GIGOLI, Cav, Lodovico Gasdi da, b. at Gigoli, Sept. 12, 1559, d. at Bome, June 8, 1613. Tuscan School. A pupil of Alessandro Allori, and Santo di Titi. He was one of the great reformers of the Florentine School, and was the first who successfully opposed the Anatomi- cal School of Michelangelo's imitators. Gigoli*s style was founded much on that of Barocci and the Garracd. In colour he was superior to Barocci. Some of his large altar-pieces are considered among the finest oil-pictures in Italy. The Lame Man Healed, formerly in St. Peter's, now destroyed, was pro- nounced by Andrea Sacchi the third picture in Borne : there are prints of it by Dorigny, Gallot, and Scacciati. Works, Florence, Pitti Palace, Ecce Uomo; and Ghrist Walking on the Sea : Uffizj, the Stoning of St. Stephen ; and others. Louvre, the Flight into Egypt; and others. {Baldinucci.^ CIMABUE, or Gualtieri, Giovan- ni, b, 1240, living 1302. Tuscan School. Called by Vasari, but with little foundation in truth, the father of Modem Italian Painting. His education is unknown ; there were, however, cer- tainly as good and earlier Italian pain-