220px, ''The Holy Family with St Elizabeth and St John the Baptist'' by Cesare Magni, Attingham Park, Shropshire
Cesare Magni or Magno (14951534) was an Italian painter of the
Leonardeschi
The Leonardeschi were the large group of artists who worked in the studio of, or under the influence of, Leonardo da Vinci. They were artists of Italian Renaissance painting, although his influence extended to many countries within Europe.
As ...
school. He was born and died in
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
, and was an illegitimate son of Francesco Magni, a member of a well-known family of that city.
Works
*''
St Apollonia'' (1526, untraced), for
Santa Maria presso San Celso, Milan
*''Altarpiece of the Virgin and Child with
St Peter and
St Jerome'' (1530,
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
A pinacotheca (Latin borrowing from grc, πινακοθήκη, pinakothēkē = grc, πίναξ, pinax, (painted) board, tablet, label=none + grc, θήκη, thēkē, box, chest, label=none) was a picture gallery in either ancient Greece or an ...
, Milan)
* ''The Holy Family with
St Elizabeth and
St John'' (1530,
National Trust
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,
Attingham Park
Attingham Park is an English country house and estate in Shropshire. Located near the village of Atcham, on the B4380 Shrewsbury to Wellington road. It is owned by the National Trust. It is a Grade I listed building.
Attingham Park was b ...
)
*''Crucifixion'' (1531,
Vigevano Cathedral
Vigevano Cathedral ( it, Duomo di Vigevano, ''Cattedrale di Sant'Ambrogio'') is a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint Ambrose and located in the Piazza Ducale of Vigevano, Italy. It is the seat of the Bishop of Vigevano. The present buil ...
)
*''Virgin and Child with
St Peter Martyr and
St Vincent Ferrer
Vincent Ferrer, OP ( ca-valencia, Sant Vicent Ferrer , es, San Vicente Ferrer, it, San Vincenzo Ferreri, german: Sankt Vinzenz Ferrer, nl, Sint-Vincent Ferrer, french: Saint Vincent Ferrier; 23 January 1350 – 5 April 1419) was a Valencian D ...
'' (1531, San Biagio,
Codogno
Codogno (; Western Lombard, Lodigiano: ) is a town and ''comune'' of 15,868 inhabitants in the province of Lodi, Lombardy, northern Italy. It is the main center of the plain known as Basso Lodigiano, which has about 90,000 inhabitants. It received ...
)
*Fresco, ''St Martin and St George'' (1533,
Madonna dei Miracoli, Saronno)
*Fresco, ''Virgin and Child with St Sebastian and St Roch'' (1533, Berlin), for the oratory of San Rocco, Codogno
References
External links
''Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman'' exhibition catalog fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Cesare Magni (see index)
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Year of birth unknown
1534 deaths
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian Renaissance painters
Painters from Milan
