Simone Pignoni (1611-1698)

• Was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
• He apprenticed with Fabrizio Boschi, then with the more academic and puritanical Domenico Passignano, and finally with Francesco Furini.

• He is best known for painting in a style reminiscent of the morbidly sensual Furini.

• Reflective of this obsession is his self-portrait, c. 1650, in which he depicts himself building up a plump naked female from a skeleton.

• Among his other works is a St. Agatha cured by St. Peter (attributed) in the Museo Civico di Trieste.

• A Penitent Magdalen that has been attributed to Pignoni is found in the Pitti Palace.

• In San Bartolomeo in Monteoliveto, he painted a Madonna appearing to Blessed Bernardo Tolomeo. 

• Among his pupils were Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani, and another pupil was the priest Luca Querci of Cutigliano.

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