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Giuseppe Cesari
1568–1640
(b Arpino, ?1568; d Rome, 3 July 1640). Italian Mannerist painter, active mainly in Rome. He had an enormous reputation in the first two decades of the 17th century, when he gained some of the most prestigious commissions of the day, most notably the designing of the mosaics for the dome of St Peter's (1603–12).
Text Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press)