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an artist. On his removal to Forli, where he died, the school he had
founded at Bologna was fain in some sort to follow its master. His most
famous pictures, in addition to the Assumption already cited, are--the
"Entry of Paul III. into Bologna"; the "Francois I. Touching for King's
Evil"; a "Power of Love," painted under a fine ceiling by Agostino
Carracci, on the walls of a room in the ducal palace at Parma; an "Adam
and Eve" (at the Hague); and two of "Joseph and Potiphar's Wife" (at
Dresden and Copenhagen). His son Felice (1660-1724) and nephew Paolo
(1709-1764) were also painters.
CIGOLI (or CIVOLI), LODOVICO CARDI DA(1559-1613), Italian painter,
architect and poet, was born at Cigoli in Tuscany. Educated under
Alessandro Allori and Santi di Tito, he formed a peculiar style by the
study at Florence of Michelangelo, Correggio, Andrea del Sarto and
Pontormo. Assimilating more of the second of these masters than of all
the others, he laboured for some years with success; but the attacks of
his enemies, and intense application to the production of a wax model of
certain anatomical preparations, induced an alienation of mind which
affected him for three years. At the end of this period he visited
Lombardy, whence he returned to Florence. There he painted an "Ecce
Homo," in competition with Passignani and Caravaggio, which gained the
prize. This work was afterwards taken by Bonaparte to the Louvre, and
was restored to Florence in 1815. Other important pictures are--a "St
Peter Healing the Lame Man," in St Peter's at Rome; a "Conversion of St
Paul," in the church of San Paolo fuori le Mura, and a "Story of
Psyche," in fresco, at the Villa Borghese; a "Martyrdom of Stephen,"
which earned him the name of the Florentine Correggio, a "Venus and
Satyr," a "Sacrifice of Isaac," a "Stigmata of St Francis," at Florence.
Cigoli, who was made a knight of Malta at the request of Pope Paul III.,
was a good and solid draughtsman and the possessor of a rich and
harmonious palette. He died, it is said, of grief at the failure of his
last fresco (in the Roman church of Santa Maria Maggiore), which is
rendered ridiculous by an abuse of perspective.
CILIA (plural of Lat. _cilium_, eyelash), in biology, the thread-like
processes by the vibration of which many lowly organisms, or the male
reproductive cells of higher organisms, move through water.
CILIATA (M. Pertz), one of the two divisions of Infusoria, charac
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