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Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli (Turin 1730 - 1800) and Angelo Cignaroli (Turin 1767 - 1841/1842), Tobia and the angel Oil on canvas cm 44 x 69 SOLD "Son of the painter Scipione and Marianna Caretti, Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli was born in Turin around 1730. The date of birth is established on the basis of the death certificate which says he was "70 years old". A. Baudi di Vesme (Schede Vesme) clarified the confusion that arose around his name, whereby his person had previously been split into that of Vittorio Amedeo and Gaetano. According to family tradition, C. trained with his father from whom he absorbed Venetian culture, but with a different orientation. A more affected taste and Arcadian nostalgia distinguish C. from his father, of whom he was a collaborator; the somewhat cloying ways, but supported by a sure skill of the trade, met with extraordinary success at the Savoy court and the Piedmontese aristocracy. It is precisely with Vittorio Amedeo that the Cignaroli workshop expanded greatly, welcoming quantity of help and thus still making difficult a distinction between the autograph production and that of the workshop. The work of C. is documented from 1749 to 1794. He married Rosalia Ladatte in 1766, daughter of the sculptor Francesco, a painter, who also became his collaborator and died in 1792 (I. Nepote, in Schede Vesme, p. 317). Of their sons was a painter Angelo, [who cooperated in the realization of this painting] ". - Enciclopedia Treccani, Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli