The Assassination of Julius Caesar - 1806
by Doc Braham
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar - 1806
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Doc Braham
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Painting - Photography, Pop Art, Contemporary, Black & White, Portfolio, Original Art, High Class Fashion, Painting, Conceptual, Mixed Media, Abstract, Contemporary, Success, Unique, Odd, Quirky
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Vincenzo Camuccini (22 February 1771 – 2 September 1844) was an Italian painter of Neoclassic histories and religious paintings. He was considered the premier academic painter of his time in Rome.
As an original painter, Camuccini belongs to the Neoclassicist school fostered in Rome by Anton Raphael Mengs.[citation needed] Camuccini's first major independent work, completed around 1798, was a large canvas of The Death of Julius Caesar. This led to the assessment that Camuccini may have been influenced by Jacques-Louis David's classic Roman themes and style, but it is more likely both were emerging from the rising Neoclassic refocus towards images of and derived from Greco-Roman themes.
La mort de Cèsar or The Death of Julius Caesar is an 1806 painting by Vincenzo Camuccini, originally commissioned in 1793 by Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, for whom he had already produced a copy of Raphael's Deposition. He completed a cartoon for the work in 1793 which was favourably received by art critics active in Rome at the time. However, when he produced a first version of the painting in 1796, it was less well-received and so he destroyed it and started again from scratch, completing the surviving version in 1806. The Earl had died in 1803 and his heirs refused to pay for the work, so Camuccini instead sold it to Gioacchino Murat in 1807. After Murat's fall, it was acquired by Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and relocated to the Palazzo Reale in Naples. In 1864 it entered its present home, the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples.
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