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Cesare Vecellio (c. 1521 – c. 1601) was an Italian engraver and painter of the ''De gli Habiti Antichi e Modérni di Diversi Parti di Mondo''
(1590) by Cesare Vecellio. Cesare's brother, Fabrizio di Cadore or Ettore, was little known beyond his native place, for the Council-hall of which he is said to have painted a fine picture. He died in 1580.
Vecellio.net - The Works of Cesare Vecellio
1530s births 1600s deaths People from the Province of Belluno 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Venice Italian Renaissance painters Italian printmakers History of clothing (Western fashion) Titian {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub
Cesare Vecellio (c. 1521 – c. 1601) was an Italian engraver and painter of the Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ide ...
, active in Venice
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He was the cousin of the painter Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italians, Italian (Republic of Venice, Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school (art), ...
. Like Titian, he was born in Cadore
Cadore (; lld, Ciadòre; vec, italic=yes, Cadór or, rarely, ''Cadòria''; german: italic=yes, Cadober or ''Kadober''; Sappada German: ''Kadour'';
in the Veneto. He accompanied Titian to Augsburg
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in 1548, and seems to have worked as his assistant. Many of Cesare's pictures were ascribed, perhaps knowingly, to Titian. In the Milan Pinacoteca there is a small ''Trinity'' by Cesare. He died in Venice
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. The crude woodcuts for book assembling contemporary fashion from across the world, ''De gli Habiti Antichi e Modérni di Diversi Parti di Mondo'' published in Venice in 1590 by Cesare as if they were his works, may in fact belong to Christopher Krieger from Nuremberg
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. They depict the garb, sometimes fanciful and imagined, of individuals, men and women, from Tsars to Tribeswomen from the Arabian Desert to Muscovite nobles to Arabian nobles to Inca nobles.(1590) by Cesare Vecellio. Cesare's brother, Fabrizio di Cadore or Ettore, was little known beyond his native place, for the Council-hall of which he is said to have painted a fine picture. He died in 1580.
See also
For more details of on contemporary fashion see1550-1600 in Western European fashion
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Vecellio.net - The Works of Cesare Vecellio
1530s births 1600s deaths People from the Province of Belluno 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Venice Italian Renaissance painters Italian printmakers History of clothing (Western fashion) Titian {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub