Italian Renaissance Tempera on Parchment Painting Holy Family by Giuseppe Cesari Circa 1595 Sculpture Postal Scale by Fairbanks

Postal Scale by Fairbanks

The scrolled arms having acanthus leaf terminals

The needlepoint is very finely and delicately rendered

5" tall X 8" wide X 2

Italian Renaissance Tempera on Parchment Painting Holy Family by Giuseppe Cesari Circa 1595 Sculpture Postal Scale by FairbanksA rare & important Italian Renaissance tempera on parchment painting, Giuseppe Cesari Il Cavalier d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari, 1568 1640), the painting circa 1595. Caesari was born in Rome in 1568 and his family came from Arpino in central Italy, he was apprenticed in Rome to Niccol Pomarancio and adopted Pomaranancio's post Michelangelo Mannerist style. He received commissions in his early 20's for a number of chapels and choir vaults in both Rome and