Word: cigoli
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Early in the xyth century, a Roman nobleman commissioned three famed artists of the day to paint their versions of Ecce Homo (Pilate presenting Christ to the mob). He bought the one that pleased him best, by Lodovico Cigoli, and eventually it passed to the Pitti Palace at Florence. Another version, by Domenico Passignano, is lost. The third, by the great Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, also disappeared...
...celebrate the rediscovery of Caravaggio's Ecce Homo, Genoa borrowed Cigoli's version from Florence and displayed the two together. Visitors thronging the gallery at the rate of a thousand a day, agreed with Expert Roberto Longhi that Caravaggio's version is one of his "most moving works," and much superior to Cigoli's canvas. Caravaggio had at last won the competition he lost to his rival Cigoli 3½ centuries...
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