Antonio Cifrondi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Antonio Cifrondi

Italian painter (1656-1730)

Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1656

Place of Birth: Clusone, Lombardy, Italy

Date of Death: 30-Oct-1730

Profession: painter

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Antonio Cifrondi (June 11, 1655 – October 30, 1730) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque, mainly of genre themes.
He was active in Brescia and near Bergamo.
He was born to a poor mason in Clusone.
After some local training.
Cifrondi moved to Bologna with Marcantonio Franceschini, a member of the Cignani circle.
He traveled to Turin with his younger brother Ventura, but was not successful in finding work.
He stayed in Rome during 1675–1680.
He briefly worked in the Palace of Versailles under Le Brun, but was dismissed before the age of 30.
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.
He influenced Giuseppe Roncelli. He is known by canvases mainly during 1722–1730.
He often painted aged men or people at work. In 1897, a historian of Bergamo described him as one the adventurers who vaguely foreseeing the advent of a new era ...
gave a sign of a nervous agitation and a restlessness, and felt need to get out of the narrow circle of village life, traveling and observing a little of everything, somewhat eager for fresh air and brighter light.
He describes him as always poor but full of cheer.



Alternative names	Antonio Zifrondi
Description	Italian painter Late Baroque Genre works
Date of birth/death	11 June 1656	30 October 1730
Location of birth/death	Clusone	Brescia
Work location	Bologna (1673–1674); Bergamo (1701–1704); Brescia (1720–1722)
Authority control	: Q1145771 VIAF: 20481187 ISNI: 0000 0001 2123 3370 ULAN: 500021525 LCCN: n83229475 Open Library: OL1271223A WorldCat