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| 1568 births | |
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BIOGRAPHY Cesari's father had been a native of Arpino , but Giuseppe himself was born in Rome. Here he was apprenticed to Niccolò Pomarancio. Cesari is stigmatized by Lanzi as not less the corrupter of taste in painting than Marino was in poetry; indeed, another of the nicknames of Cesari is "Il Marino de Pittori" (the pictorial Marino). There was spirit in Cesari's heads of men and horses, and his Fresco es in the Capitol (story of Romulus And Remus , etc.), which occupied him at intervals during forty years, are well coloured; but he drew the human form ill. His Perspective is faulty, his extremities monotonous, and his Chiaroscuro defective. Cesari ranks as the head of the Idealists of his period, as opposed to the Naturalists , of whom Caravaggio was the leading champion, the so-called Idealism consisting more in reckless facility, and disregard of the common facts and common-sense of nature, than in anything to which so lofty a name could be properly accorded. He was a man of touchy and irascible character, and rose from penury to the height of opulence. His brother Bernardino assisted in many of his works. Cesari became a member of the Accademia di San Luca in 1585. He died in 1640, at the age of seventy-two, or perhaps of eighty, at Rome. His only direct followers were his sons Muzio (1619-1676) and Bernardino (d. 1703). SELECTED WORKS
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