Naturalist sculptor from Pietrasanta, inscribed in the Tuscan tradition of marble workshops, author of scenes of childhood with bourgeois sensibility.

Cesare Viviani is an Italian sculptor active at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, whose signature appears on several groups sculpted in marble representing scenes of childhood and genre. The mention of Pietrasanta associated with his signature on certain works connects him to this Tuscan city, the world capital of marble carving since the 15th century, where numerous workshops perpetuated a craft handed down from generation to generation.

His activity remains poorly documented in biographical repertories and seems to belong to a workshop production or an independent sculptor inscribed in the Italian naturalist and sentimental tradition of the late 19th century. The works attributed to him respond to the bourgeois taste of the period for touching and decorative scenes: children in everyday attitudes, simple and universal gestures, idealised intimate situations.

His style belongs to late academicism, with attention paid to the softness of forms, the legibility of attitudes and a careful finish of the marble. The treatment of flesh, smooth and luminous, contrasted with more vibrant surfaces in the clothing and decorations, reflects a real mastery of carving and a particular sensitivity to the expression of emotions.