Sigismondo Coccapani, an Italian painter, who was born at Florence in 1585. He at first studied literature and mathematics, but abandoned them for painting, and became a scholar of Cigoli

Cigoli

Lodovico Cardi , also known as Cigoli, was an Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist and early Baroque period, trained and active in his early career in Florence, and spending the last nine years of his life in Rome.Lodovico Cardi was born at Villa Castelvecchio di Cigoli, in Tuscany,...

. In 1610 he went to Italy, and after his return home gained considerable reputation both as a painter and an architect. He died in 1642.