Giuseppe Cades (March 4, 1750 – December 8, 1799) was an Italian sculptor, painter, and engraver. Cades was born in

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. He studied at the

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under Mancini and

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, gaining a prize in 1765 with his picture of ''Tobias Recovering His Sight.''"Cades, Giuseppe." Graves, Robert Edmund, et al. ''Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical.'' United Kingdom, G. Bell and Sons, 1886. pp. 207-208. In 1766, after quarreling with his master, he visited

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. Two years later, he executed an altarpiece for the church of San Benedetto in

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and in 1771 another for the church of Santi Apostoli. He also decorated the

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with frescoes, landscapes, and scenes from Tasso. He has left two etchings, ''Christ Blessing Little Children'' and ''The Death of

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''. Cades' early commissions were influenced by the Baroque Classicist painter

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. In the mid-1770s, Cades came to know Swiss painter Johann Heinrich Fuseli and toured Northern Italy, and his work began to show

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and

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influences as well. He again joined the

of Rome, now as a fellow, in 1786. Late in life,

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of Russia commissioned an artwork from him. He died in

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