Cesare da Sesto (1477–1523) was an Italian painter of the

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active in

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and elsewhere in Italy.

Life

Cesare da Sesto was born in

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, Lombardy. He is considered one of the ''

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'' or artists influenced by

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, such as

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and

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. He may have trained or worked with Baldassare Peruzzi in Rome in 1505. Of this period, a lunette in Sant'Onofrio and some paintings in Campagnano Romano are attributed to him. From 1514 he sojourned in

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for six years. In 1515 he finished a monumental polyptych for the Abbey of Santissima Trinità at

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and produced '' Leda and the Swan'', a copy after Leonardo's own work on the subject. Back in Milan, he executed a ''Baptism of Christ'', in collaboration with Bernardino Bernazzano (now lost) and a ''Salomè'', acquired by

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and now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum of

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. In 1517 he returned to southern Italy; in Messina executed an ''Adoration of the Kings'' which influenced numerous artists of southern Italy, it can be found in the Capodimonte Museum of Naples. Sometime between 1516 and 1519, he completed his ''

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''. He returned to Milan in 1520, where he painted the ''Madonna in Glory with Saints'' polyptych for the church of San Rocco (now in the Castello Sforzesco). He died in Milan in 1523. File:Sesto2.jpg, alt=, ''Salome'' ()

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''Leonardo da Vinci: anatomical drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle''
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on da Sesto (see index)
Painters of reality : the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on da Sesto (see index) {{DEFAULTSORT:Sesto, Cesare da 1477 births 1523 deaths People from the Province of Varese 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Italian Renaissance painters Painters from Milan