Cesare Biseo was an Italian artist, illustrator and engraver. He was known for his paintings on oriental topics.
Background
Ethnicity:
Cesare Biseo’s family came from Brescia, a city in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy.
Cesare Biseo was born on April 18, 1843 in Rome, Italy. He was a son of Gian Battista Biseo.
Education
Cesare Biseo was taught the principles of the classical painting by his father.
Career
Cesare Biseo started his career as a decorator of the Viceroy of Egypt’s palace in Alexandria, Egypt about 1870-1871. His also made decoration paintings for the Opera House in Cairo. These trips provided the artist with the subjects for his future creations.
Along with a painter Stefano Ussi and Italian autor Edmondo De Amicis, Biseo took part four years later at the first embassy to Morocco. This expedition resulted in two books illustrated by Biseo. The first one, called Marocco, by Edmondo De Amicis, was published and edited by the brothers Treves in Milan in 1879, the second, named Costantinople, appeared in 1882.
The debut exhibition where Cesare Biseo demonstrated his Ilpalazzo di giustizia a Tangeri was the National exhibition of Fine Arts in Naples in 1877. In 1883, he took part at Rome exhibition of Fine Arts with his large painting depicting the first Italian embassy in Morocco. A year later, he presented two paintings on the African theme at the Exhibition of Modern Art in Turin.