Gregorio Pagani
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Gregorio Pagani was an Italian
Italy
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 painter of the late Mannerist
Mannerism
Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe...

 period, active mainly in Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

. He was the son of the painter Francesco Pagani, then became a pupil of Santi di Tito
Santi di Tito
Santi di Tito was an Italian painter of Late-Mannerist or proto-Baroque style, what is sometimes referred to as Contra-Maniera or Counter-Mannerism.-Biography:...

, then entered the studio of Ludovico Cigoli. He painted the St. Helena finding the Cross for Santa Maria del Carmine, was lost in the fire at the church in 1771. He painted a Nativity for the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore
Santa Maria del Fiore
The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church of Florence, Italy. The Duomo, as it is ordinarily called, was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi...

. Among his pupils were Cristofano Allori
Cristofano Allori
Cristofano Allori was an Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school. Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in painting from his father, Alessandro Allori, but becoming dissatisfied with the hard anatomical drawing and cold coloring of the latter, he...

 and Matteo Rosselli
Matteo Rosselli
Matteo Rosselli was an Italian painter of the late Florentine Counter-Maniera and early Baroque. He is best known however for his highly-populated grand-manner historical paintings.-Biography:...

.

Selected works

  • Confirmation of the Rule of Saint Dominic
  • Meeting between SS Dominic and Francis
  • Finding of the True Cross
  • Crucifixion and Saints
  • Saint Lawrence
  • Adoration of the Magi
  • Descent of the Holy Spirit
  • Tobias Restoring the Sight of his Father
  • Virgin and Child with SS Michael the Archangel and Benedict
  • Piramus and Thisbe (Uffizi Gallery, Florence
    Florence
    Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

    )
  • Madonna and Child with Saints Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Margaret and Gregory the Great (Hermitage Museum
    Hermitage Museum
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    , Saint Petersburg
    Saint Petersburg
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    )
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