Antonio Cioci

Antonio Cioci, Italian painter engraver and decorator born in Florence in 1722 and died in the same city after 1792, is a prominent figure in Tuscan art of the eighteenth century. Biographical information on this Florentine artist is scarce, but the first documents date back to 1758, when he painted in Rome The procession of the imperial ambassador Clerici in front of the Quirinal, kept in the Civic Art Collections of Milan. In 1766 he decorated the Hall of the Seas in the villa of Baron Montemurlo in Prato with views of ports, landings and neoclassical landscapes in tempera, while in 1772 he created frescoes of fantasy views in the hall of the La Tana villa in Candeli, commissioned by Baron Leon Francesco Pasquale Ricasoli. Around 1780 he decorated the overdoors of the neoclassical wing of the Medici Villa of Poggio Imperiale in Florence with seascapes.