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Carlo Cesio or Carlo Cesi (17 April 1622– 6 January 1682) was a
*''The Virgin and Infant Jesus with St. John''; half-length.
*''St. Andrew led to Martyrdom, prostrating himself before the Cross''; after Guido.
*The Frontispiece to the book entitled ''Discorsi della Musica''.
*Sixteen plates from the Pamphili Gallery; after Pietro da Cortona.
*Forty-one plates (1657) of the
L'anatomia dei pittori del signore Carlo Cesio
Images from ''Cognitione de muscoli del corpo humano''
From The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library 1622 births 1682 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian engravers {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub
Carlo Cesio or Carlo Cesi (17 April 1622– 6 January 1682) was a Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
-style painter and engraver of the Roman school.
Biography
Cesio was born in 1622 atAntrodoco
Antrodoco ( Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Rieti, in the Lazio region of central Italy. The name derives from the Latin Interocrea (between the mountains).
Geography
Antrodoco is located along the Velino river, in the ...
in the present Province of Rieti, then part of the Roman States. He was brought up at Rome, in the school of Pietro da Cortona
Pietro da Cortona (; 1 November 1596 or 159716 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman ...
, and was employed in several prominent public works during the pontificate of Alexander VII
Pope Alexander VII ( it, Alessandro VII; 13 February 159922 May 1667), born Fabio Chigi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 April 1655 to his death in May 1667.
He began his career as a vice- papal legate, an ...
. He painted historical subjects. He died in 1686 at Rieti
Rieti (; lat, Reate, Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 47,700. It is the administrative seat of the province of Rieti and see of the diocese of Rieti, as well as the modern capital of the Sabina re ...
.
In the Quirinal
The Quirinal Hill (; la, Collis Quirinalis; it, Quirinale ) is one of the Seven Hills of Rome, at the north-east of the city center. It is the location of the official residence of the Italian head of state, who resides in the Quirinal Palace ...
, he painted ''The Judgment of Solomon,'' and others of his works are in Santa Maria Maggiore
The Basilica of Saint Mary Major ( it, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, ; la, Basilica Sanctae Mariae Maioris), or church of Santa Maria Maggiore, is a Major papal basilica as well as one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome and the larges ...
and in the Rotunda. Carlo Cesio was also an engraver of some eminence; we have by him several plates after the Italian painters of his time. His plates are etched and finished off with the graver, in a free, masterly style.
Among his works as an engraver:
*''The Virgin and Infant Jesus with St. John''; half-length.
*''St. Andrew led to Martyrdom, prostrating himself before the Cross''; after Guido.
*The Frontispiece to the book entitled ''Discorsi della Musica''.
*Sixteen plates from the Pamphili Gallery; after Pietro da Cortona.
*Forty-one plates (1657) of the Farnese Gallery
''The Loves of the Gods'' is a monumental fresco cycle, completed by the Bolognese artist Annibale Carracci and his studio, in the Farnese Gallery which is located in the west wing of the Palazzo Farnese, now the French Embassy, in Rome. The f ...
; after Annibale Carracci
Annibale Carracci (; November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother and cousin, Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of th ...
.
*Eight plates of the Buongiovanni Chapel in the church of St. Augustine at Rome; after Lanfranco
Lanfranco (active in Modena from c. 1099 to 1110) was an Italian architect. His only known work is the Modena Cathedral. Record of his work there is in the early 13th-century manuscript ''Relatio de innovatione ecclesie sancti Gemeniani'' in the ...
.
*A book of anatomical drawings, published posthumously in GermanL'anatomia dei pittori del signore Carlo Cesio
References
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Images from ''Cognitione de muscoli del corpo humano''
From The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library 1622 births 1682 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian engravers {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub