Cesare Nebbia

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Cesare Nebbia (c. 1536 - c. 1614) is an Italian painter from Orvieto who painted in a Mannerist style.

He is also responsible, along with his mentor Girolamo Muziano in a flurry of decoration that was added to the Cathedral of Orvieto in the 1560s. Other Mnnerist painters that were involved in this enterprise were Taddeo and Federico Zuccari, Niccolò Circignani, and Hendrick van der Broek. Almost all the remaining work in Orvieto is now in the Museo del Duomo. Fresco decorations in Palazzo Simonelli in Torre San Severo have been attributed to Nebbia.

In 1576, he painted a Resurrection of Lazarus for the Church of Santa Maria dei Servi in Pieve.

He labored under many papal projects in Rome, including Capella Gregoriana for Gregory XIII, and for Sixtus V; he helped paint galleries in Vatican libraries including the ceilings of map gallery; and Capella Sistina in Santa Maria Maggiore and decoration for Scala Santa in San Giovanni in Laterano. During Clement VIII he designed pendentive mosaics for Matthew and Mark for St. Peter's Basilica.

Along with Il Bertoia, Federico Zuccari and others, he helped paint the frescoes on the wall of the Oratorio del Gonfalone in Rome. He also contributed to the decoration of the Oratory of Santissimo Crocifisso.

In 1603-1604, he moved to Milan where he worked for Federico Borromeo painting a series of frescoes on the life of the Blessed Carlo Borromeo for various sites, including the Collegio Borromeo in Pavia, the collegiata di Arona, and the Palazzo Borromeo on Isola Bella.

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• Cesare Nebbia's Work for the Palazzo Simoncelli: Drawings and Frescoes. Rhoda Eitel Porter, Alberto Satolli; Burlington Magazine, 136 (1096) (Jul., 1994), pp. 433-438.
• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). in Pelican History of Art: Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, p647 Penguin Books Ltd.