Antonio Cifrondi

Antonio Cifrondi (June 11, 1655 – October 30, 1730) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque, mainly of genre themes.

Cifrondi moved to Bologna with Marcantonio Franceschini, a member of the Cignani circle.

He briefly worked in the Palace of Versailles under Le Brun, but was dismissed before the age of 30.

He may have met the fellow northern Italian genre painter Giuseppe Maria Crespi.

In 1897, a historian of Bergamo described him as one of the adventurers who vaguely foreseeing the advent of a new era ... gave a sign of a nervous agitation and a restlessness, and felt need to get out of the narrow circle of village life, traveling and observing a little of everything, somewhat eager for fresh air and brighter light.