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Giuseppe Cesari, known as the Knight of Arpino was born on February 14th 1968 in Arpino from the local painter Maurizio di Polidoro and the Spanish noble Giovanna van Mander. Cesari was a painter during the Baroque age and his artistic activity was active mainly in Naples and Rome. He was also involved in the education of new artists that would become famous at a later time, just as Guido Reni and Caravaggio. He moved to Rome in 1582, where he worked on the decoration of the Vatican loggias. In 1583 he was accepted into the Academy of St Luca and later he worked on the church of Most Holy Trinity of the Hills (Trinità dei Monti) and St Lorenzo in Damascus. In 1586 Cesare became a member of the Pantheon Congregation of the Virtuous. When he moved to Naples in 1589, he took part in the decoration of the Charterhouse of St Martin. When he went back to Rome, he participated in the realisation of frescos inside the Contarelli Chapel, in the Church of St Louis of the French, before leaving this job to his apprentice Caravaggio. His art is represented in the most important architectural works situated in the Rome and Naples of that period. In Arpino we can admire his works in the Collegiate of St Archangel Michael, situated in Municipio Square, and in the Church of St Vito located on the Acropolis of Civitavecchia.