Caligula, emperor of Rome. Line engraving by A. Sadeler

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The artwork

Caesar Caligula is one of the Eleven Caesars, a series of eleven half-length portraits of Roman emperors painted by Titian between 1536 and 1540 for Frederick II, Duke of Mantua. They were among his best-known works, inspired by Suetonius's Lives of the Caesars. Titian's paintings were originally housed in a new room within the Ducal Palace of Mantua. Bernardino Campi added a twelfth portrait in 1562.

The portraits were copied by Flemish engravers between the late 16th and early 17th centuries, who added engravings of twelve Roman empresses. Between 1627 and 1628, the paintings were sold to Charles I of England by Vincenzo II Gonzaga, and when Charles I's Royal Collection was dismembered and sold after his execution by the English Commonwealth, the Eleven Caesars passed into the collection of Philip IV of Spain in 1651. They were all destroyed in a catastrophic fire at the Royal Alcazar of Madrid in 1734 and are now known only from copies and engravings. This one is by Aegidius Sadeler.

Unique quality material

Print on handmade Amalfi paper with frame
Sheet size: 30 x 42 cm
With frame: 30 x 40 cm
Material: Printed on high-quality handmade Amalfi paper with frayed edges.
Frame: Light brown beech wood and handmade wood pulp.

Print on canvas
Size: 100 x 75 cm
Material: Printed on very fine-grain canvas
Frame: Light brown beech wood and handmade wood pulp

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