# Portrait of Prospero Farinaccio [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CESARI, Giuseppe]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 198 x 148 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Prospero Farinaccio c. 1607 Oil on canvas, 198 x 148 cm Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome Prospero Farinaccio was the lawyer of the painter. Cesari rarely executed portraits, this portrait was painted in recognition of the part that the lawyer had played in securing the painter's release from imprisonment after the sequestration of his property and collection of pictures in 1607 by Cardinal Scipione Borghese. ## Related artworks - [Battle of Tullius Hostilius against the Veii]() - [Christ Taken Prisoner]() - [Diana and Actaeon \(detail\)]() - [Diana and Actaeon \(detail\)]() - [Diana and Actaeon]() - [Judith with the Head of Holofernes]() - [Lamentation]() - [Madonna and Child with Sts John the Baptist, Mary Magdalen and Anne]() - [Madonna and Child with Sts. Peter and Paul]() - [Passion scenes]() - [Perseus Rescuing Andromeda]() - [Portrait of a Pope]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()