Antonio Cifrondi

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Antonio Cifrondi was an Italian painter of the late Baroque, mainly of genre themes. He was active in Brescia and near Bergamo. Born in 11 June 1655 in Clusone, and died in 1730. Painted known canvases mainly during 1722-1730. He often painted aged men or people at work. He apparently studied in Bologna with Marcantonio Franceschini, a member of the Cignani circle. He stayed in Rome during 1675-1680. Worked in Paris under Le Brun. He lived in the Benedictine convent of San Faustino in the last decade of his life. He may have met the fellow northern Italian genre painter Giuseppe Maria Crespi.

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• John T Spike (1986). in Centro Di, Kimball Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.: Giuseppe Maria Crespi and the Emergence of Genre Painting in Italy, 68-69.