Italian painter and draughtsman. He is best known for his many pictures of voluptuous female nudes, which developed the morbidly sensual style of Francesco Furini. His Self-portrait (c. 1650; Florence, Uffizi), in which he depicts himself building up a rounded female form from a skeleton, conveys his fascination with the subject. He had an early education in Latin, followed by an apprenticeship in the workshop of the bookbinder Zanobi Pignoni, a close relative. Domenico Passignano, who frequented the workshop, suggested that Pignoni be apprenticed to Fabrizio Boschi (1570-1642), one of his own former pupils. Pignoni began to study under Boschi, but shortly moved to the workshop of Passignano and then spent a further period of study under Furini. Pignoni apparently had a late-life conversion to more pious painting. Among his more conventional works are a St Agatha Cured by St Peter (attributed) in the Museo Civico di Trieste. A St Louis Providing a Banquet for the Poor (c. 1682) now in the church of Santa Felicità in Florence, commissioned by Conte Luigi Gucciardini. A Madonna and Child in Glory with Archangels Sts Michael and Raphael in Battle Armor and San Antonio of Padua (1671) for the Cappella di San Michele in Santissima Annunziata. He painted an Allegory of Peace in Palazzo Vecchio. A Penitent Magdalen has been attributed to Pignoni is found in the Pitti Palace. In San Bartolomeo in Monteoliveto, he painted a Madonna appearing to Blessed Bernardo Tolomeo. //