Giuseppe Cesari (1568-1640)

• Was an Italian Mannerist painter.
• He is also named Il Giuseppino and called Cavaliere d'Arpino, because he was created Cavaliere di Cristo by his patron Pope Clement VIII.
• He was patronized in Rome by both Clement and Sixtus V.
• Giuseppe Cesari was the chief of the studio in which Caravaggio trained upon the younger painter's arrival in Rome.
• He was a man of touchy and irascible character, and rose from penury to the height of opulence.
• His brother Bernardino Cesari assisted in many of his works.
• Cesari became a member of the Accademia di San Luca in 1585. • In 1607, he was briefly jailed by the new papal administration.
• He died in 1640 at Rome.
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