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| Giacinto Gimignani Bacchus and Ariadne ca. 1650-81 oil on canvas Ptuj Ormož Regional Museum, Slovenia |
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| Giacinto Gimignani Venus, Cupid and Chronos before 1681 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Giacinto Gimignani Venus appearing to Aeneas and Achates ca. 1650 oil on canvas private collection |
"Giacinto Gimignani - painter, etcher and engraver, born in Pistoia. By 1630 he had settled in Rome, where he was the pupil of Pietro da Cortona. Worked for the Barberini and later for French patrons. In the 1650s worked in Florence, Pistoia and Lucca, before returning to Rome. Among his earliest independent works is the fresco of the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, painted in one of the lunettes of the chapel of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1631), in which Cortona's influence is readily apparent. In the next decade he was one of a group of painters (including Andrea Camassei and Carlo Maratti) that worked under the direction of Andrea Sacchi on the decorations of S. Giovanni in Fonte, Rome. This was followed, in 1648, by designs for friezes in two rooms of Palazzo Pamphilij, Piazza Navona. . . . The style of Gimignani's paintings and drawings closely follows that of his teacher Cortona, though his compositions and figure types reveal also the strong influence of Nicolas Poussin. Gimignani's contemporaries praise in particular the masterly colouring of his paintings."
– from curator's notes at the British Museum
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| Giacinto Gimignani Hercules as trompe l'œil Statue in Niche before 1681 fresco Appartamenti di Donna Isabella, Palazzo Colonna, Rome |
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| Giacinto Gimignani Flora in Clouds supported by Putti before 1681 ceiling fresco Appartamenti di Donna Isabella, Palazzo Colonna, Rome |
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| Giacinto Gimignani Fortune favors Ignorance and repels Virtue 1672 etching (after lost painting) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Giacinto Gimignani Semiramis leaving her Toilette with her Spear to quell a Revolt 1647 etching British Museum |
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| Giacinto Gimignani Mystic Marriage of St Catherine ca. 1645-50 oil on canvas Collezione Cavallini-Sgarbi, Ferrara |
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| Giacinto Gimignani Finding of Moses ca. 1632-34 oil on canvas private collection |
"Gimignani is artistically closer to Romanelli than to his supposed teacher, Pietro da Cortona. He had the same preference as Romanelli for geometrically ordered compositions, but in his drawings of the human figure he is considerably more restrained and, in a Tuscan manner, petty in detail. Monumental works were beyond his range, but he distinguished himself in the expression of gentle, idyllic moods in his landscapes. He was at his best in painting figured scenes of medium scale."
– Hermann Voss, from Baroque Painting in Rome (1925), revised and translated by Thomas Pelzel (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1997)
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| Giacinto Gimignani Four Seated Women wearing Classical Costumes before 1681 drawing British Museum |
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| Giacinto Gimignani Christ and the Virgin with Patron Saints of Pistoia 1638 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Giacinto Gimignani Figure-studies before 1681 drawing (recto) Morgan Library, New York |
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| Giacinto Gimignani Figure-studies before 1681 drawing (verso) Morgan Library, New York |
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| Giacinto Gimignani St Augustine and the Mystery of the Trinity (Boy on the Beach attempting to empty the Sea) before 1681 oil on canvas Chiesa di Santa Prudenziana, Rome |