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Lodovico Cardi (21 September 1559 – 8 June 1613), 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.One of his early paintings was of Cain slaying Abel. He then gained the employ of the Grand-Duke in some works for thePitti Palace, where he painted a Venus and Satyr and a Sacrifice of Isaac.