Cesare Bartolena

Cesare Bartolena (May 27, 1830 – May 14, 1903) was an Italian painter, mainly of military or battle scenes.

[1] He was a pupil of Enrico Pollastrini, and attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence.

There he met his contemporary battle painter Giovanni Fattori.

[2] Along with the French photographer Alphonse Bernoud, Cesare opened a photography studio, but it failed, placing the now elderly painter in precarious financial straits.

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