Resumen de Il cantiere della certosa di San Martino: riflessioni sulla grafica di Giuseppe Cesari, Belisario Corenzio e Avanzino Nucci
The move from Rome to Naples, for the redecoration of the Certosa di San Martino, of the leading figures from the lively milieu of Sixtus V � Giuseppe Cesari, Giovanni Baglione, Andrea Lilio, and, later on, Avanzino Nucci � marked a turning-point for painting in the Spanish Viceregal capital. Among the many Neapolitans who were present at the Certosa, and may have participated in its decoration, Belisario Corenzio and Bernardino Azzolino benefited in a special way from the presence of the rising star of Roman painting, the then twenty-year-old Giuseppe Cesari (later known as the Cavalier d´Arpino). This article seeks to examine the progress of work in the choir vaulting of San Martino, reconsidering its chronology, and using unpublished drawings by Cesari to show how his art influenced painting and drawing in late sixteenth-century Naples.
