Giacomo Cestaro (1718 - 1778)

• Was an Italian painter.
• He was born in Naples.
• He is also known as Jacopo Cestaro 
• Cestaro trained with Francesco Solimena.
• In 1770, Cestaro worked on the frescoes of the Berio chapel in the church of San Giorgio dei Genovesi in Naples.
• At the same time, Cestaro maintained a prolonged relationship with the Accademia del Disegno Napoletana, where he taught in the years when it was directed by De Mura and Bonito.
• In 1772, Luigi Vanvitelli included Cestaro among the nineteen painters suitable to teach, in acknowledgement for his project to reform the Academia itself.
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