Bartolomeo Cesi (1556–1629)

• Cesi was an Italian painter and draftsman.
• He was born to a wealthy family of Bologna.
• He first received a humanist education and later studied painting under Giovanni Francesco Bezzo.
• In Bologna, he contributed works to the Duomo, San Procolo, and Santo Stefano.
• He collaborated with Ludovico Carracci and Prospero Fontana on some projects.
• His pious sobriety was influenced by his friendship with Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti of Bologna, who had attended the Council of Trent.
• He traveled to Rome and worked there with Scipione Pulzone.

• After his return in 1591, one of his project was a series of frescoes on the Passion of Christ for the Carthusian Monastery or San Girolamo in Bologna.

• Together with his contemporary Lodovico Carracci, Cesi campaigned successfully to create a guild of painters in Bologna in 1599.

• Cesi's last years were less productive, but he became the drawing master of the Accademia degli Ardenti in 1620.

• Alessandro Tiarini was his pupil. 

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