Cesare da Sesto

Cesare da Sesto (* 1477 in Sesto Calende, † 1523 in Milan ) was an Italian High Renaissance painter from the school of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519 ).

Life

Cesare was born in Sesto Calende, in the present province of Varese, Lombardy. As an artist, he was particularly influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, but also by Bernardino Luini (1480-1532) and Marco d' Oggiono ( 1475-1530 ). It is possible that he counted around the year 1505 also to the staff of Raphael ( 1483-1520 ) and Baldassare Peruzzi ( 1481-1536 ) in Rome. From this time it a bezel Onofrio and some paintings are attributed in Campagnano di Roma.

From 1514 he worked in Naples. In 1515 he set there a monumental polyptych for the Abbey Holy Trinity in Cava de ' Tirreni done. Back in Milan he made in collaboration with Cesare Bernazano a painting depicting the " Baptism of Christ ". Another painting, " Salome with the Head of John the Baptist" was acquired by Rudolf II and is now in the inventory of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

In 1517, he again traveled to southern Italy. In Messina he painted the " Adoration of the Magi ". Today, the painting is in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples. In 1520 he returned to Milan, where " Madonna in Glory with the Saints " was originally intended as a winged altar for the church of San Rocco. Now the factory is Castello Sforzesco in Milan.

Cesare da Sesto died in 1523 in Milan. The monumental statue of the Leonardo da Vinci on the Piazza della Scala in Milan shows Cesare da Sesto, together with three other artists from the school of Leonardo ( Marco d' Oggione, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio and Andrea Salaino ).

Works

" Baptism of Christ ", (Collection Gallarati Scotti, Milan)

" Adoration of the Magi " (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples)

Virgin, Child and St. John the Baptist, (Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon )