Cesare Fracassini (or Fracassi; December 18, 1838 – December 13, 1868) was an Italian painter, mainly of large mythologic or religious topics.
Biography
While he was born to Paolo Serafini, originally from Orvieto; his father died when he was an infant and his mother remarried with a Domenico Fracassini.[1] Cesare was born in Rome, and studied painting there with either Tommaso Minardi, or his pupils, before enrolling in the Accademia di San Luca, where he executed several frescoes for San Lorenzo fuori le Mura. He lived alongside the painter Cesare Mariani as a young man. He often collaborated or obtained commissions with his friend Paolo Mei, as well as a colleague of Guglielmo de Sanctis (a pupil of Minardi) and Bernardo Celentano.[2] He died in 1868. One of his most important pictures is The Martyrs of Gorinchem (also called Canisio e i Martiri del Giappone), painted for a beatification ceremony in the Vatican.
In 1857, he was awarded first prize at the Concorso Clementino. Among his works:[3]
^Stefania Petrillo, Sipari d'Italia: Memorie municipali e cronache risorgimentali nei teatri dell'Ottocento (Perugia: Edizioni Futura. 2012), 114.
^Giucci, Gaetanno (1872). "Biografia di Cesare Fracassini, Pittore" in Roma Artistica: Pubblicazione Mensile, Illustrata, Raffaello Ojetti (ed.), Volume 1, Number 8, pp. 57-60. (in Italian). Accessed 9 July 2013.
Attribution:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Fracassi, Cesare". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
