Giuseppe Cades

Giuseppe Cades (March 4, 1750 – December 8, 1799) was an Italian sculptor, painter, and engraver.

He studied at the Accademia di San Luca[1] under Mancini and Domenico Corvi,[2] gaining a prize in 1765 with his picture of Tobias Recovering His Sight.

He has left two etchings, Christ Blessing Little Children and The Death of Leonardo da Vinci.

[3] Cades' early commissions were influenced by the Baroque Classicist painter Carlo Maratta.

In the mid-1770s, Cades came to know Swiss painter Johann Heinrich Fuseli and toured Northern Italy, and his work began to show Mannerist and Renaissance influences as well.