Sigismondo Coccapani
Drawings
Scene from the Life of St Antonin
Scene from the Life of St Antonin
Sigismondo Coccapani (1585 - 1643) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Florence, he studied under Ludovico Cigoli in Rome, before returning to his native city.
Life
Coccapani was born at Florence in 1585. He at first studied literature and mathematics, but abandoned them for painting,[1] becoming a pupil of Ludovico Cigoli in Rome[2] where he assisted him on his work at Santa Maria Maggiore in 1610-13.[3] Using his scientific background he showed Cigoli, who was making a record of solar activity for his friend Galileo, how to observe and record sunspots through a method of projection.[4] Coccapani also studied architecture with Bernardo Buontalenti. Most of his work as an independent artist was done in Florence, where he died in 1643.[2]
His drawing style was heavily indebted to that of his teacher, and some drawings once thought to be by Cigoli are now attributed to Coccapani.[2] He and his brother Giovanni made a collection of drawings by Cigoli and his circle, many of which eventually passed into the collection of the Uffizi.[2]
The immaculate and the eternal among the angels in the San Gaetano church in Florence.
References
Bryan1886-9
Linda Wolk-Simon, Carmen Bambach (2010). An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection : Correggio to Tiepolo. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 144.
Reeves, p.252
Reeves 1999, p.5
Sources
Eileen Reeves (1999). Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of Galileo. Princeton University Press. p. 252.
This article incorporates text from the article "COCCAPANI, Sigismondo" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.
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