Collection: Vincenzo Camuccini

Vincenzo Camuccini (1771-1844) was the leading painter of Neoclassical Rome, and his Assassination of Caesar is one of the great scenes of ancient history painted in 19th-century Italy. Neoclassical means that he looked to ancient statues and to Raphael: clear figures, solemn gestures, nothing superfluous. A Roman, he was also president of the Accademia di San Luca, the academy of the artists of Rome.

In this collection you will find The Assassination of Caesar, in its painted and in its drawn version, printed on handmade Amalfi paper.

His model was Raphael; for the history of ancient Rome painted a few decades later in the spirit of the Risorgimento, see Marius Victorious over the Cimbri by Francesco Saverio Altamura.