Cesare Ligario (1716- after 1755) was an Italian painter. He was born in

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

, the son of

Giovanni Pietro Ligario Giovanni Pietro Ligario (1686–1748) was an Italian painter and architect of the late-Baroque. He was born at Ardenno province of Sondrio in the Valtelline valley, and after early training there, moved to Rome, where he frequented the studio of ...

. He studied at

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under

Giovanni Battista Pittoni Giambattista Pittoni or Giovanni Battista Pittoni (6 June 1687 – 6 November 1767) was a Venetian painter of the late Baroque or Rococo period. He was among the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, of which in 1758 he became the s ...

, and afterwards with his father. His grandson, Angelo Ligari, was also a painter, who restored a painting by Pietro at the Collegiata of Sondrio.La Valtellina: guida turistica
by Ercole Bassi, page 258.

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* 1716 births 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Year of death unknown 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub