Giuseppe cesari caravaggio biography

Italian Mannerist painter (1568–1640)

Giuseppe Cesari (14 February 1568 – 3 July 1640) was an Italian Manneristpainter, also named Il Giuseppino and called Cavaliere d'Arpino, because he was created Cavaliere di Cristo by his patron Pope Clement VIII.

He was much patronized in Rome by both Clement and Sixtus V. He was the chief of the studio in which Caravaggio trained upon the younger painter's arrival in Rome.

Biography

Cesari's father, Muzio Cesari,^[1] had been a native of Arpino, but Giuseppe himself was born in Rome.

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Here, he was apprenticed to Niccolò Pomarancio. Cesari is stigmatized by Luigi Lanzi, as not less the corrupter of taste in painting than Marino was in poetry (Lanzi disdained the style of post-Michelangelo Mannerism as a time of decline.).

Cesari's first major work, done in his twenties, was the painting of the right counterfacade of San Lorenzo in Damaso, completed from 1588 to 1589. On 28 June 1589, he recei