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Bernardino Cesari (1571 – 30 June 1622) was an Italian painter of the late-

Mannerist Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Ita ...

and early

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 ...

period, active mainly in

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and

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, where he assisted his brother

Giuseppe Cesari Giuseppe Cesari (14 February 1568 – 3 July 1640) was an Italian Mannerist painter, 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 patronize ...

(Cavaliere d'Arpino). On 9 November 1592, he was sentenced to death, for consorting with bandits, and fled to Naples. On 13 May 1593, he was pardoned and returned to Rome. In 1616, he travelled with Giuseppe to Naples to assist in painting in the

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, then to Piedimonte di Alife to paint a large ''Last Judgement'' in the chapel of the fathers "predicatori". He travelled to

Monte Cassino Monte Cassino (today usually spelled Montecassino) is a rocky hill about southeast of Rome, in the Latin Valley, Italy, west of Cassino and at an elevation of . Site of the Roman town of Casinum, it is widely known for its abbey, the first ho ...

where he laboured with Giuseppe in the frescoes for the refectory and the stanza of San Benedict, then to Rome where he painted an oil canvas of ''Noli me tangere'', a fresco of ''Constantine the Great'', a ''St. Peter'', and three oil paintings for the church

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Works

*''Destruction of Niobe's Children'' *''Hannibal's Defeat by Scipio Africanus'' *''Noli me tangere'' *''Persephone and Andromeda'' *''St. Peter'',

*''St. Cecilia'' *''Diana and Acteon'' *''Sts. Stephen and Agatha'' *A fresco of Constantine the Great *Paintings at

, Naples

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His biography is collected in Giovanni Baglione's ''Vite''. p. 139. * * 1565 births 1621 deaths People from the Province of Frosinone 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Naples Italian Baroque painters Italian Mannerist painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub