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| Bernardino Cesari (1571–1622) | ||||||||||
| Bernardino was a pupil of his elder brother, the painter Giuseppe Cesari d’Arpino, whom he assisted on many works. He also produced several compositions of his own for churches in Rome, executed entirely in his brother’s style. An accomplished copyist of Michelangelo’s designs, he did not attain the same refinement of technique; however, his family’s ties with the Farnese likely gave him access to their collection of drawings by Michelangelo. In 1592 he fled to Naples after being sentenced to death for associating with known bandits, but he returned to Rome the following year under papal pardon. Around this time Caravaggio entered the employment of the Cesari brothers. In San Carlo ai Catinari, Rome, there is a painting by him of Christ appearing to the Magdalen. For Clement VIII he executed a large fresco in St John Lateran, showing the Emperor Constantine in a triumphal car with numerous figures. He died in Rome in 1622, though the record of his death curiously gives the year 1703. | ||||||||||
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