Artist Info: Cesare Negri

Born: c1535 - Milan, Italy
Died: after 1604 - Milan, Italy

If in his own time Cesare Negri was not the most famous dancing-master in Europe, he may assume that role in retrospect. We must trust his own words for much of the documentation of his life, but the first part of his massive 1602 dancing treatise contains an extremely detailed account of his life and career from 1565 until that date. Though most of his life was spent serving the Spanish/ Hapsburg overlords of Milan [read more...]