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Giambettino Cignaroli was born in Verona on 4 July 1706. He studied rhetoric from the Jesuits and attended the painting school of the master Antonio Balestra. Read the full biography

Giambettino Cignaroli was born in Verona on 4 July 1706. He studied rhetoric from the Jesuits and attended the painting school of the master Antonio Balestra. In 1728, he moved to Venice to study the works of great masters such as Titian, Paolo Veronese and Palma il Vecchio. Returning to Verona, he opened a permanent shop. Working in several Italian cities including Milan, Parma, Turin, Bologna and Ferrara, he obtained important commissions: from the Elector of Saxony, the King of Poland, the Tsarina of Russia and the Queen of Spain. The monumental altarpiece entitled "Madonna and Child with Saints Lucia, Lorenzo, Antonio da Padova, Barbara and the Guardian Angel" is today located in the Prado. Cignaroli promoted the construction of the Veronese Academy of Art, of which he was the first director and which today bears his name. Giambettino Cignaroli died in Verona on 1 December 1770.