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| Cigoli Venus and Adonis ca. 1600-1610 oil on copper private collection |
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| Cigoli Head of Youth 1594 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Cigoli Pietà with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist ca. 1599-1600 oil on panel Fondazione Musei Senesi |
"By far the most eminent Florentine artist of this generation, however, is Ludovico Cardi, called Il Cigoli. An architect of repute and a close friend of Galileo, he went further on the road to a true Baroque style than any of his Florentine contemporaries. In the beginning he accepted the Mannerism of his teacher, Alessandro Allori. At a comparatively early date he changed under the influence of Federico Barocci. . . . The clarity, directness, and simplicity of interpretation . . . show him almost on a level with the works of the Carracci at the same moment. . . . Nevertheless, he hardly ever fully succeeded in casting off his Florentine heritage. He went to Rome in 1604, returning to Florence only for brief intervals. . . . In his last frescoes (1611-12), those of Cupid and Psyche from the Logetta Rospigliosi (now Museo di Roma), he accepted the Carraccesque idiom to such an extent that they were once attributed to Giovanni Lanfranco, as well as to Annibale Carracci himself."
– Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, originally published in 1958, revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu and reissued by Yale University Press in 1999
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| Cigoli Annunciation 1580 oil on canvas Convento di Maria Santissima, Florence |
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| Cigoli Adoration of the Magi 1605 oil on canvas National Trust, Stourhead, Wiltshire |
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| Cigoli Head of Christ before 1613 oil on paper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Cigoli Adoration of the Shepherds, with St Catherine of Alexandria 1599 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Cigoli Mercury confiding the infant Bacchus to the Nymphs of Nysa before 1613 oil on copper Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Cigoli Pietà with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist c1590-1600- oil on canvas Campion Hall, University of Oxford |
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| Cigoli St Francis of Assisi ca. 1597-99 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Cigoli Joseph and Potiphar's Wife 1610 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| attributed to Cigoli Christ driving the Money-changers from the Temple before 1613 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Cigoli Study for Male Figure lowered into the Grave (Studio Assistant in Hammock) ca. 1607-1613 drawing on blue paper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Cigoli Kneeling Female Figure (Drapery Study) ca. 1607-1613 drawing on blue paper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |