GIUSEPPE, called IL CAVALIERE D'ARPINO, an Italian painter much encouraged at Rome and munificently rewarded, while A. Caracci was so ill requited for his finest works. Cesari is stigmatized by Lanzi as not less the corrupter of taste in painting than Marino was in poetry. There was spirit in Cesari's heads of men and horses, and his frescoes in the capitol are well coloured; but he drew the human form ill. His perspective is faulty, his extremes monotonous, and his chiaroscuro defective. He died in 1640, at the age of 72.