Italian Renaissance Tempera on Parchment Painting Holy Family by Giuseppe Cesari Circa 1595 Drawings & Prints 5 cm X 11 cm

5 cm X 11 cm

Circa 1760

the figure is raised on a circular stepped variegated marble socle

often focusing on the facial portraits

Jan Cossiers

Italian Renaissance Tempera on Parchment Painting Holy Family by Giuseppe Cesari Circa 1595 Drawings & Prints 5 cm X 11 cmA rare & important Italian Renaissance tempera on parchment painting, Giuseppe Cesari Il Cavalier d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari, 1568 1640), the painting circa 1595. Caesari was born in Rome in 1568 and his family came from Arpino in central Italy, he was apprenticed in Rome to Niccol Pomarancio and adopted Pomaranancio's post Michelangelo Mannerist style. He received commissions in his early 20's for a number of chapels and choir vaults in both Rome and