a Florentine painter, was born in 1576, and studied under Cigoli, and blended the style of that master with that of Paolo Veronese and Titian. He finished some pictures which Cigoli left unfinished at his death, and executed a number of pictures in the churches of San Gaetano and San Marco. Of these, The Elevation of the Cross is considered the masterpiece. He died in 1644. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.