Cesare Nebbia
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.Cesare Nebbia (c.1536–c.1614) was an Italian Mannerist painter from Orvieto.
Biography
Nebbia was born in
Cathedral of Orvieto in the 1560s. Almost all the remaining work in Orvieto is now in the Museo del Duomo
.
Nebbia and Muziano participated in many of the premier projects in late 16th-century
Gregory XIII (1572–1585). Other Mannerist painters involved in this enterprise were Taddeo and Federico Zuccari, Niccolò Circignani, and Hendrick van den Broeck
(known as Arrigo Fiammingo).
The fresco decorations in Palazzo Simonelli in Torre San Severo (near Orvieto) have been attributed to Nebbia. In 1576, he painted a Resurrection of Lazarus for the Church of Santa Maria dei Servi in Città della Pieve.
Nebbia and Guerra together supervised the two major fresco commissions of the pontificate of Pope
Sistine chapel). Giovanni Baglione identifies these frescos as the collaborative work of ten painters:[1][2]
- Cesare Nebbia
- Hendrick van den Broeck
- Angelo from Orvieto
- Ercolino from Bologna
- Salvatore Fontana
- Lattanzio Mainardi
- Ferdinando Sermei
- Giacomo Stella
- Giovanni Battista Pozzo
- Paris Nogari.
During the refurbishment of the Lateran palace and church of
Nebbia helped paint galleries in Vatican libraries, including the ceilings of the
Santa Maria dei Monti
.
Along with
the painter known as il Bertoia, Federico Zuccari and others, he helped fresco the walls of the Oratorio del Gonfalone in Rome. He also contributed to the decoration of the Oratory of Santissimo Crocifisso
.
In 1603-1604, he moved to
Carlo Borromeo for various sites, including the Collegio Borromeo in Pavia, the collegiata di Arona, and the Palazzo Borromeo on Isola Bella
.
He became the prince of the San Luca Academy in 1597.
References
- Eitel Porter, Rhoda (2009). Der Zeichner und Maler Cesare Nebbia: Mit einem Katalog der Zeichnungen (Römische Studien der Bibliotheca Hertziana). Munich, Hirmer Verlag.
- Eitel Porter, Rhoda; Alberto Satolli (July 1994). "Cesare Nebbia's Work for the Palazzo Simoncelli: Drawings and Frescoes". Burlington Magazine. No. 136. pp. 433–438.
- Eitel-Porter, Rhoda (1997). "Artistic Co-Operation in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome: The Sistine Chapel in S. Maria Maggiore and the Scala Santa". The Burlington Magazine. pp. 452–462.
- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books. p. 647.
- Baglione, Giovanni (1733) [1641]. Le Vite de' Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed Intagliatori dal Pontificato di Gregorio XII del 1572. fino a' tempi de Papa Urbano VIII. nel 1642 [Lives of the painters, sculptors, architects, and engravers during the papacies of Gregory XII in 1572 to Urban VIII in 1642]. Naples: Giovanni Battista Passari. p. 110.
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