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Mort de Cesar – Death of Caesar by Vincenzo Camuccini, 1798

Academician / Greco-Roman / Italian / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Mort de Cesar” of 1798 by Vincenzo Camuccini.  Camuccnini became the premier Neoclassic painter in Rome in the early nineteenth century.  This was his first major original work completed when he was twenty-seven years old.    He received a Papal commission two years later.  He had a painting exhibited in the Pantheon in 1806.  He later went to Munich and Parish where he met Napoleon and Jean Jacques David.  He was created a Papal Baron and received the Order of the Iron Crown from the emperor of Austria.  He died at Rome on September 2, 1844.

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