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Simone Pignoni (April 17 1611 – December 16 1698) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He apprenticed with Fabrizio Boschi then with the more academic and puritanical Domenico Passignano and finally with Francesco Furini. He is best known for painting in a style reminiscent of the morbidly sensual Furini. Reflective of this obsession is his self-portrait c. 1650 in which he depicts himself building up a plump naked female from a skeleton.
