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| Giuseppe Cades Armida gazes on sleeping Rinaldo 1785 drawing (colored chalks) Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Giuseppe Cades Achilles playing the Lyre to Patroclus in their Tent, surprised by Ulysses and Nestor ca. 1782 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Giuseppe Cades Tullia about to ride over the Body of her Father in her Chariot ca. 1770-75 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
"Born in Rome at the midpoint of the eighteenth century to a French father and an Italian mother, Giuseppe Cades was a child prodigy. A virtuoso draughtsman who at the age of 12 had won a minor prize at the Roman art academy (Accademia di San Luca), he had claimed a major prize from the same institution by age 16. In the latter year, 1786, he was expelled from the studio of his master, the painter Domenico Corvi, apparently for excessive independence. For some years thereafter, Cades made his reputation as a producer of polished, saleable drawings "in the manner of" older masters – not forgeries, but openly recognized imitations of sixteenth- or seventeenth-century artists intended for collectors of hard-to-find Renaissance or baroque masterpieces on paper. By the 1770s, after his brilliant if erratic beginnings, Cades had become an established history painter with important commissions from churches and religious orders as well as from princely Roman families. . . . Cades's mature drawing style surpassed those of most of his immediate contemporaries in fluency, imagination, and vigor. His work combines a neoclassical linearity and clarity with a neo-Mannerist tension and distortion, overlaid by a strong influence of the extravagant and fantastic manner characteristic of the circle of northern artists working around Henry Fuseli in Rome in the 1770s."
– from curator's notes at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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| Giuseppe Cades Modello for The Martyrdom of the Blessed Signoretto Alliata ca. 1794-96 oil on canvas Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Giuseppe Cades Allegory of Painting (Death of Leonardo da Vinci in the arms of King Francis I) ca. 1780-99 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giuseppe Cades Alexander the Great in the workshop of Apelles 1792 tempera with wax on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giuseppe Cades Alexander the Great refuses water 1792 tempera with wax on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giuseppe Cades Christ in the House of Mary and Martha before 1799 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Giuseppe Cades Birth of the Virgin ca. 1784 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Giuseppe Cades Virgin and Child before 1799 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giuseppe Cades Raising of Lazarus ca. 1770 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Giuseppe Cades Blessed Francis Venimbeni celebrating Mass for Souls in Purgatory before 1799 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giuseppe Cades Martyred Deacon Saint seated in Niche before 1799 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| attributed to Giuseppe Cades Adoration of the Shepherds before 1799 watercolor British Museum |