Cesare Baglioni

This article is about the 16th century Renaissance painter. For the Baroque painter and art historian, see Giovanni Baglione.

Cesare Baglioni (c. 1525–1590, born in Bologna) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He trained under his father, then became renowned as a painter of quadratura. He painted in Parma and Rome. He befriended both Agostino and Annibale Carracci. Leonello Spada apprenticed with Baglioni.

Works

• Decorated rooms of the Villa Malenchini Fortuny, Carignano
• Involved in frescoing the Oratorio di Santa Cecilia, Bologna

References

• Ticozzi, Stefano (1830). Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d'ogni etá e d'ogni nazione' (Volume 1). Milan: Gaetano Schiepatti. p. 95.