CIGOLI, LODOVICO CARDI DA, a Florentine painter of the third epoch of that school, was born in 1559. He may be considered as the artist who taught the Florentine school the value of a finer chiaroscuro than it then possessed. His style was formed on that of Coreggio, though he failed in giving his pictures the mellow lucidity of that mighty master of colouring. Cigoli drew well, and had a good knowledge of perspective, in which he was instructed by Buontalenti, while he was the scholar of Santi di Tito. His finest pictures are in the churches of Florence and in the ducal gallery. The Martyrdom of St Stephen in the nunnery of Monte Domini, and his St Albert in S. Maria Maggiore; and above all his St Peter healing the lame man in the Vatican, are among his noblest productions. This last Sacchi considers next to Raphael's Transfiguration, and the St Jerome of Domenichino. Cigoli died in 1613. (r.s.r.)