Keywords

• Long neglected by scholarship
• Giuseppe Cesari (1568-1640)
• better known as the Cavalier dâ€
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• Arpino
• was one of the most important artists of papal Rome during his lifetime. While a young adolescent at work on the Vatican projects of Gregory XIII
• his talent was recognised and his subsequent career was a succession of successes. Not much is known of his juvenile activity as a painter and even less as a draughtsman. In this article we will present to the readers a new drawing by the young Giuseppe Cesari
• recently discovered among the anonymous sheets of the Louvre Museumâ€
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• s graphic collection. The drawing
• a pen and brown ink presentation project
• was probably executed by the artist around 1585
• when he was just seventeen years old
• for a never executed commission
• the decoration of the Sala dei Capitani in the Palazzo dei Conservatori