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Historical Artist - Giuseppe Cesari (1568 - 1640)
Also known as Cavaliere d'Arpino, Giuseppe Cesari worked mainly in Rome where he gained a
highly respected position as a painter. He was granted numerous important commissions, including
the mosaics for St. Peter's dome. In addition to frescoes, he also produced a number of
religious and mythological cabinet paintings. He was a man of touchy and irascible character,
and rose from penury to the height of opulence. His brother Bernardino Cesari assisted in many
of his works. Cesari became a member of the Accademia di San Luca in 1585. In 1607, he was
briefly jailed by the new papal administration. He died in 1640, at the age of seventy-two, or
perhaps of eighty, at Rome.
Contemporary Italian Artists
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