BERNARDINO CESARI | Madonna and Child with an angel

Another version of this composition by Bernardino Cesari, younger brother of Giuseppe Cesari, called Il Cavaliere d'Arpino, is in the Museo Civico, in Aquila.(1) We are grateful to Professor Dr. Herwarth Röttgen for endorsing the attribution to Bernardino Cesari and for suggesting a date of circa 1600-10. The painting will be included in his forthcoming monograph on the artist.

1 See M. Marini, Dalla casa al Museo: antologia di dipinti dei secc. 16.-18. dalla Raccolta Signorini-Corsi al Museo Civico dell'Aquila, L'Aquila 1992, p. 25.