Carlo Cesio

Apollo and Hyacinth, after Annibale Carracci. Published in the Illustrazione de la Galleria Farnese of 1675.

Carlo Cesio, a painter and engraver of the Roman school, was born at Androdoco, in the Roman States, in 1626. He was brought up at Rome, in the school of Pietro da Cortona, and was employed with some of the best artists of his time in several public works during the pontificate of Alexander VII. He painted historical subjects, and his works are held in considerable estimation. He died at Rieti in 1686. In the Quirinal, he painted 'The Judgment of Solomon,' and others of his works are in Santa Maria Maggiore and in the Rotunda. Carlo Cesio was also an engraver of some eminence; we have by him several plates after the Italian painters of his time. His plates are etched and finished off with the graver, in a free, masterly style. His drawing is generally correct, and his prints have the effect of the works of a painter. The following are his principal works as an engraver:

Ganymede and Jupiter, from the same book.

• The Virgin and Infant Jesus with St. John; half-length.
• St. Andrew led to Martyrdom, prostrating himself before the Cross; after Guido.
• The Frontispiece to the book entitled Discorsi della Musica.
• Sixteen plates from the Pamphili Gallery; after Pietro da Cortona.
• Forty-one plates of the Farnese Gallery; after Annib. Carracci.
• Eight plates of the Buongiovanni Chapel in the church of St. Augustine at Rome; after Lanfranco.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "CESIO, Carlo" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.