{{Short description|Italian painter (1606–1681)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Giacinto Gimignani | image = | size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1606 | birth_place = Pistoia | death_date = 1681 | death_place = | known_for = Painting | movement = Baroque | notable_works = }}
thumb|Venus appears to Aeneas and Achates thumb|Angel and Devil fight for soul of child '''Giacinto Gimignani''' (1606 – 9 December 1681) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period. He was also an engraver of aquaforte.
==Biography== Gimignani was born in Pistoia, where his father, Alessio (1567–1651) was also a painter and former pupil of Jacopo Ligozzi.<ref>[http://www.artnet.com/library/03/0323/T032318.asp Artnet website]</ref> Gimignani had been patronized by the prominent Guido Rospigliosi, Cardinal Secretary of State, and descendant of the prominent Rospigliosi family of Pistoia.
By 1630 his father had arranged for him to travel to Rome, where he is said to have begun training under Poussin, and by 1632 he had transferred to work under Pietro da Cortona. Luigi Lanzi describes that he learned design from the former and color from the latter.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=LZP8JSbY_NwC Guida di Pistoia per gli amanti delle belle arti con notizie] By Francesco Tolomei, 1821, page 170.</ref>
In Rome, his first known work is the fresco of the ''Rest on the Flight to Egypt'' (1632), a lunette in the chapel of the Palazzo Barberini. He competed with Camassei and Maratta for fresco commissions,<ref>F. Tolomei, page 171.</ref> including the fresco of the ''Vision of the Cross by Constantine the Great'' in the ambulatory of the baptistery of San Giovanni in Laterano. He completed this work under the guidance of Andrea Sacchi. In 1648, he assisted Cortona in the decoration of the Palazzo Pamphili in Rome. He developed a classical style befitting the grand manner style developing in Rome. Among other works in Rome, he painted a ''San Pio'' for the church of San Silvestro al Quirinale, and a ''Martyrdom'' canvas for the church of Santa Maria a Campo Santo. In Perugia, for the Benedictine church, he painted a ''St. Benedict meeting Totila, King of the Goths''.<ref>F. Tolomei, page 171.</ref>
He joined the Accademia di San Luca in 1650. He married the daughter of the painter Alessandro Turchi of Verona. He spent his last years back in Tuscany. In Pistoia, are a number of paintings in the Museo Clemente Rospigliosi, including the ''Meeting of Venus and Adonis'' and ''The brothers show Joseph's bloody coat to Jacob''.<ref>[http://www.comune.pistoia.it/musei/museodiocesano.htm Museo Diocesano of Pistoia] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927002734/http://www.comune.pistoia.it/musei/museodiocesano.htm |date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref>
The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia was the owner of ''Venus Awakened by Cupid'', ''Olindo e Sophronia'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.acri.it/_files/bilanci/2604_B_06.pdf|title=2006 Bilancio|date=30 November 2007|access-date=26 February 2016|work=Fondazione Caript|publisher=ACRI archive|language=Italian|archive-date=1 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301161233/https://www.acri.it/_files/bilanci/2604_B_06.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''Venus, Cupid and Time'', ''Venere e amore'', ''Olindo e Sofronia'' and ''La verità che scopre il tempo''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fondazionecrpt.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/bilancio_esercizio2013.pdf|title=2013 Bilancio|date=16 April 2014|access-date=26 February 2016|publisher=Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia (Fondazione Caript)|language=Italian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fondazionecrpt.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Bilancio-desercizio-14-sm.pdf|title=2014 Bilancio|date=22 April 2015|access-date=9 February 2016|publisher=Fondazione Caript|language=Italian}}</ref>
His son Ludovico Gimignani is also known for his fresco work in Rome.
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== External links == * {{Commons category-inline|Giacinto Gimignani}} * [http://www.wga.hu/bio/g/gimignan/biograph.html Web Gallery of Art Biography] {{Authority control}}
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