Cesare Vecellio

Cesare Vecellio (c. 1521 in Pieve di Cadore, † March 2, 1601 in Venice) was an Italian painter.

Life

Cesare Vecellio was a distant relative of the painter Tiziano Vecellio and pupil of his brother Francesco. In 1548 he accompanied Titian to Augsburg and has since worked for him in his workshop in Venice until his death in the year 1576th Vecellio painted around 1577, the coffered ceiling of the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Lentiai. Other works attributed to him are in Belluno in the Cathedral and in the Palazzo Piloni in Pieve di Cadore and other places in the province of Belluno, in tarzo and Borgo Valsugana, as well as a Trinitätsbild in Milan's Brera. In Venice, he had his workshop and a printer for his woodcuts in the San Moise.

Vecellio has an extensive pattern book for the top production written and one in his lifetime twice aufgelegtes costume book about ancient and modern clothing styles from different parts of the world, whose anfertigte over 500 stitches, a native of Nuremberg Christoforo Chrieger after Vecellios drawings in Venice. Vecellios engravings were reprinted several times.

From the book collector Odorico Piloni from Belluno, he received orders for frontispiece and book section paintings.

Writings

• De gli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo, 1590
• Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il Mondo, 1598
• Corona delle nobili et virtuoso donne, 1591 The crown of skilful women: pattern book, Wasmuth, Berlin 1891

• Ancient and modern clothing from different parts of the world

Greek merchant

Greek nobleman

In Georgia, men and women wearing sheepskin coats.

Greek from Pera ( Constantinople Opel )

Greek from Thessaloniki