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Volume 4 · 59 words · 1778 Edition

(Cibo), a skilful painter born of a good family at Rome, in 1634. He was bred under Peter Cortona; and the works of the scholar are often mistaken for those of the master. The great duke of Tuscany nominated him chief of the Florentine school; and he was as good an architect as a painter. He died in 1689.