Giuseppe Cades

Giuseppe Cades (March 4, 1750 – December 8, 1799) was an Italian sculptor, painter, and engraver.

The Judgment of Solomon, Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Biography

Cades was born in Rome. He studied at the Accademia di San Luca[1] under Mancini and Domenico Corvi,[2] gaining a prize in 1765 with his picture of Tobias Recovering His Sight.[3]

In 1766, after quarreling with his master,[1] he visited Florence. Two years later, he executed an altarpiece for the church of San Benedetto in Turin and in 1771 another for the church of Santi Apostoli. He also decorated the Palazzo Chigi with frescoes, landscapes, and scenes from Tasso. He has left two etchings, Christ Blessing Little Children and The Death of Leonardo da Vinci.[3]

Cades' early commissions were influenced by the Baroque Classicist painter Carlo Maratta. In the mid-1770s, Cades came to know Swiss painter Johann Heinrich Fuseli and toured Northern Italy, and his work began to show Mannerist and Renaissance influences as well.[1]

He again joined the Accademia di San Luca of Rome, now as a fellow, in 1786.[4][1] Late in life, Catherine the Great of Russia commissioned an artwork from him.[1] He died in Rome.[5]

Giuseppe Cades - Astronomy [6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Giuseppe Cades". Getty Museum. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  2. ^ "Giuseppe Cades". The British Museum. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Cades, Giuseppe." Graves, Robert Edmund, et al. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical. United Kingdom, G. Bell and Sons, 1886. pp. 207-208.
  4. ^ Boni, Filippo de' (1852). Biografia degli artisti ovvero dizionario della vita e delle opere dei pittori, degli scultori, degli intagliatori, dei tipografi e dei musici di ogni nazione che fiorirono da'tempi più remoti sino á nostri giorni. 2nd Edition. Venice; Googlebooks: Presso Andrea Santini e Figlio. p. 164.
  5. ^ Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. pp. 207–208.
  6. ^ "Giuseppe Cades - Astronomy". en.artsdot.com. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
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