Cesare da Sesto

Cesare da Sesto (1477–1523) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Milan and elsewhere in Italy.

Life

Cesare da Sesto was born in

Campagnano Romano

are attributed to him.

From 1514 he sojourned in

Capodimonte Museum of Naples. Sometime between 1516 and 1519, he completed his Adoration of the Magi

He returned to Milan in 1520, where he painted the Madonna in Glory with Saints polyptych for the church of San Rocco (now in the Castello Sforzesco). He died in Milan in 1523.

Salome (c. 1510–20)

References

^ N. Barbatelli, 2013, Leonardo e Cesare da Sesto nel Rinascimento Meridionale, CB Editor

Sources

Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art; Painting in Italy, 1500–1600. Penguin Books. pp. 383–4.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cesare da Sesto.

Leonardo da Vinci: anatomical drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on da Sesto (see index)
Painters of reality : the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on da Sesto (see index)

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Major works	The Annunciation The Baptism of Christ ✻ The Madonna of the Carnation Ginevra de' Benci Benois Madonna The Adoration of the Magi Saint Jerome in the Wilderness Madonna Litta ✻ Virgin of the Rocks Portrait of a Musician ✻✻ Lady with an Ermine La Belle Ferronnière The Last Supper Sala delle Asse Portrait of Isabella d'Este The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist Buccleuch Madonna ✻ Salvator Mundi ✻✻ Lansdowne Madonna ✻ The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne Mona Lisa La Scapigliata Saint John the Baptist
Lost works	Medusa Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist The Holy Infants Embracing The Battle of Anghiari Leda and the Swan
Sculptures	Budapest Horse Horse and Rider Sforza Horse (unexecuted)
Works on paper	Study for the Madonna of the Cat Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist Head of a Bear The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian Head of a Woman Vitruvian Man Head of Christ Studies of the Fetus in the Womb Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk
Manuscripts	Codex Arundel Codex Atlanticus Codex on the Flight of Birds Codex Leicester Codex Madrid Codex Trivulzianus A Treatise on Painting
Other projects	Architonnerre Divina proportione (illustrations) Great Kite Harpsichord-viola Aerial screw Crossbow Fighting vehicle Robot Self-propelled cart Octant projection Rapid fire crossbow Sonar Viola organista World Map
Leonardeschi	Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio Cesare da Sesto Bernardino de' Conti Giampietrino Giovanni Agostino da Lodi Bernardino Luini Cesare Magni Marco d'Oggiono Francesco Melzi Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis Salaì Andrea Solari
Museums	Museo leonardiano di Vinci Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo3 Museum Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci (Milan)
Related	Cultural references Namesakes Portraits of Leonardo Conservation-restoration of The Last Supper Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations High Renaissance Mathematics and art The Lost Leonardo
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