Matteo Cesa
Italian painter (1425-1495)
Matteo Cesa or de Cesa (c. 1425 – c. 1495) was a late-gothic style artist living in Belluno, Italy. He shows the influence of painters of the Vivarini clan. His son, Antonio, was also a painter.
Among his works:
Virgin and Child, with Saints and Angels (carved work), Santo Stefano, Belluno
Virgin and Child between SS. Matthew and Jerome, San Matteo, Belluno
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Cesa, Matteo". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol.
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