Marie Louise d’Orléans · Giovanni Battista Bonacina · Cesare Fiori · Ambrosius Besutius

**Cesare Fiori (1636–1702) was an Italian engraver, painter, and architect active in Milan during the Baroque period.**

Born in Milan, Fiori worked in the local artistic traditions of the Lombard school, producing prints, paintings, and architectural designs that reflected the ornate and dramatic style prevalent in 17th-century northern Italy. His output often included portraits and illustrative works, with one notable example being his design for an etching and engraving of Marie Louise d’Orléans (the French-born Queen of Spain, 1662–1689), published around 1689 by Ambrosius Besutius.

Fiori’s career spanned several decades in Milan, where he contributed to both fine art and reproductive printmaking. While details of his early training remain undocumented in available sources, his technical skill in engraving and architectural work placed him among the active Milanese artists of his time, alongside contemporaries such as Giovanni Battista Bonacina.

Fiori’s legacy endures through surviving prints and attributions in museum collections, including works held by institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and various Italian repositories. His contributions to portraiture and graphic arts helped document notable figures of the era and preserved the visual culture of Baroque Milan.