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 what is now the province of Varese , Lombardy . As an artist he was mainly influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, but also by Bernardino Luini (1480–1532) and Marco d'Oggiono (1475–1530). It is possible that around 1505 he was one of the collaborators of Raphael (1483–1520) and Baldassare Peruzzi (1481–1536) in Rome . A lunette in Sant'Onofrio and some paintings in Campagnano di Roma are ascribed to him from this period .
From 1514 he worked in Naples . In 1515 he completed a monumental winged altar for the Abbey of Santissima Trinità in Cava de 'Tirreni . Back in Milan, in collaboration with Cesare Bernazzano, he made a painting depicting the “ Baptism of Christ ”. Another painting, " Salome with the head of John the Baptist ", was acquired by Emperor Rudolf II (1552–1612) and is now in the holdings of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna .
In 1517 he traveled to southern Italy again. 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 created, originally intended as a winged altar for the Church of San Rocco. Now the factory is located in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.
Cesare da Sesto died in Milan in 1523. The monumental monument of Leonardo da Vinci on the Piazza della Scala in Milan shows Cesare da Sesto, together with three other artists from the Leonardo school (Marco d'Oggiono, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio and Andrea Salaino ).
Works
" Salome with the head of John the Baptist ",
( Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna )
" Baptism of Christ ",
(Gallarati Scotti Collection, Milan)
" Adoration of the Magi ",
( Museo di Capodimonte , Naples )
Madonna with Child and Johannes d. Baptist ,
( Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga , Lisbon )
literature
- Sesto . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 15 . Altenburg 1862, p. 908 ( zeno.org ).
- Giulio Bora: Césare da Sesto. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 64: Latilla – Levi Montalcini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2005.
- Alfred Stix, Anna Spitzmüller: The schools of Ferrara, Bologna, Parma and Modena, Lombardy, Genoa, Naples and Sicily . Anton Schroll, Vienna 1941
- Wilhelm Suida: Leonardo and his circle . Verlag F. Bruckmann A.-G., Munich 1929
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leonardo . In: Meyers . 6th edition. Volume 12, p. 416 .
- ↑ painting . In: Meyers . 6th edition. Volume 13, p. 167 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cesare da Sesto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter and student of Leonardo da Vinci |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1477 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sesto Calende |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1523 |
| Place of death | Milan |