CESARIANO, CESARE. – Architect, painter, and writer on art, b. in Milan in 1483, d. there on 30 March 1543. He trained under Leonardo and Bramante.
He worked for four years (1503–1507) in Reggio. In 1508 he frescoed the sacristy of the church of S. Giovanni Evangelista in Parma.
He was then in Rome and Ferrara, where he pursued philosophical and mathematical studies at the Athenaeum. In 1513 he is found in Milan as ducal engineer to Massimiliano Sforza, engaged in painting for the construction of the Duomo. Also in 1513 he submitted the model for the atrium of the church of S. Marco presso S. Celso. He studied Vitruvius and in 1521 published a Commento on Vitruvius himself; in 1527 he built the castle of porta Giovia, and in 1533 he was appointed architect of the city of Milan.