Cesare da Sesto
Cesare da Sesto (1477–1523) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Milan and elsewhere in Italy.
Life
Cesare da Sesto was born in Sesto Calende, Lombardy. He is considered one of the Leonardeschi or artists influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, such as Bernardino Luini and Marco d'Oggiono. 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 Naples for six years. In 1515 he finished a monumental polyptych for the Abbey of Santissima Trinità at Cava de' Tirreni 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 Rudolf II and now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna. 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 Adoration of the Magi.
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.
- Salome (c. 1510–20)
References
- ^ N. Barbatelli, 2013, Leonardo e Cesare da Sesto nel Rinascimento Meridionale, CB Editor
Sources
- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art; Painting in Italy, 1500–1600. Penguin Books. pp. 383–4.
External links
- 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)
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- The Annunciation
- The Baptism of Christ ✻
- The Madonna of the Carnation
- Ginevra de' Benci
- Benois Madonna
- The Adoration of the Magi
- Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
- Madonna Litta ✻
- Virgin of the Rocks
- Portrait of a Musician ✻✻
- Lady with an Ermine
- La Belle Ferronnière
- The Last Supper
- Sala delle Asse
- Portrait of Isabella d'Este
- The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist
- Buccleuch Madonna ✻
- Salvator Mundi ✻✻
- Lansdowne Madonna ✻
- The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
- Mona Lisa
- La Scapigliata
- Saint John the Baptist
- Medusa
- Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
- The Holy Infants Embracing
- The Battle of Anghiari
- Leda and the Swan
- Budapest Horse
- Horse and Rider
- Sforza Horse (unexecuted)
- Study for the Madonna of the Cat
- Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist
- Head of a Bear
- The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right
- The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
- Head of a Woman
- Vitruvian Man
- Head of Christ
- Studies of the Fetus in the Womb
- Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk
- Cultural references
- Namesakes
- Portraits of Leonardo
- Conservation-restoration of The Last Supper
- Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations
- High Renaissance
- Mathematics and art
- The Lost Leonardo
- ✻ Collaboration
- ✻✻ Possible collaboration
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