Cesare Ripa

Cesare Ripa
Portrait of Cesare Ripa in Della novissima iconologia di Cesare Ripa perugino (1624)
Born1555
Died22 January 1622(1622-01-22) (aged 66–67)
NationalityItalian
Occupation(s)Iconographer and scholar
Known forIconologia overo Descrittione dell’imagini universali cavate dall’antichità et da altri luoghi (1593)
Academic background
InfluencesPrudentius, Martianus Capella, Domenico Nani Mirabelli, Francesco Colonna, Andrea Alciato, Paolo Giovio, Achille Bocchi, Pierio Valeriano Bolzani, Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Natalis Comes, Vincenzo Cartari
Academic work
InfluencedPietro da Cortona, Gerard de Lairesse, Willem van Mieris, Vermeer, Vondel, Artus Quellinus, Antonio Cavallucci, Winckelmann, George Richardson, Piero Buscaroli

Cesare Ripa (c. 1555, Perugia(1622-01-22)January 22, 1622 Rome) was an Italian iconographer who worked for Cardinal Anton Maria Salviati as a cook and butler.