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| Cavaliere d'Arpino Self-portrait 1640 oil on canvas Accademia di San Luca, Rome |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino Imaginary Portrait of an historical Pope ca. 1630 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino Female Head after Antique Sculpture ca. 1590-1630 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino Head of Warrior ca. 1597-1601 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino St Jerome in the Desert before 1640 oil on panel private collection |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino St Sebastian ca. 1630-35 oil on canvas Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata |
"GIUSEPPE CESARI, called Il Cavaliere d'Arpino, also named Il Giuseppino, an Italian painter, much encouraged at Rome and munificently rewarded. . . . Cesari is stigmatized by Lanzi as not less the corrupter of taste in painting than Marino was in poetry; indeed, another of the nicknames of Cesari is 'il Marino de' Pittori'. There was spirit in Cesari's heads of men and horses; and his frescoes in the Capitol, which occupied him at intervals during forty years, are well coloured; but he drew the human form ill. His perspective is faulty, his extremities monotonous,and his chiaroscuro defective. . . . Cesari ranks as the head of the 'idealists' of his period, as opposed to the 'naturalists' of whom Michelangelo da Caravaggio was the leading champion – the so-called idealism consisting more in reckless facility and disregard of the common facts and common-sense than in anything to which so lofty a name could be properly accorded. He was a man of touchy and irascible character, and rose from penury to the height of opulence."
– excerpted from the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino Faun with Garland before 1640 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino Figure-study before 1640 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino St Cecilia ca. 1630 oil on canvas Fondazione Sorgente Group, Rome |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino Study of Hand before 1640 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino Half-length Figure-study ca. 1590-1620 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino Anatomical studies ca. 1590-1620 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist, Mary Magdalen and St Anne ca. 1592-93 oil on canvas private collection |
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| follower of Cavaliere d'Arpino Mystic Marriage of St Catherine 17th century oil on panel Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |