Cesare da Sesto

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Cesare da Sesto (1477–1523)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Active in Milan and elsewhere in Italy.
• He was born in Sesto Calende, Lombardy.
• He is considered one of the Leonardeschi or artists influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, such as Bernardino Luini and Marco d'Oggione.
• He have trained or worked with Baldassare Peruzzi in Rome in 1505. Sometime between 1516 and 1519.
• He returned to Milan in 1520, where he painted the Madonna in Glory with Saints polyptych for the church of San Rocco (now in the Castello Sforzesco).
• He died in Milan in 1523.
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Sketch for The Revolt of Cairo (1809-1810)

Cesare da Sesto, Madonna con il Bambino (Madonna dell’Albero), 1512-20

Original, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. Visited in 2019.

Cesare da Sesto, Madonna con il Bambino (Madonna dell’Albero), 1512-20

Cesare da Sesto, St. Rochus, 1520-1530s

Original, Archdiocesan Museum Olomouc, Czech Republic. Visited in 2019-2023.

Cesare da Sesto, Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. George, ca. 1514

Original, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Visited in 2022.

Cesare da Sesto, Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. George, ca. 1514

Cesare da Sesto, Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. George, ca. 1514

Cesare da Sesto, Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. George, ca. 1514