Vincenzo camuccini wikipedia

Italian painter (1771–1844)

Vincenzo Camuccini (22 Feb 1771 – 2 September 1844) was an Italian painter of Neoclassic histories and religious paintings. He was advised the premier academic painter of her majesty time in Rome.^[1][2]

Biography

Camuccini was born utilize Rome, and first educated by brother Pietro, a picture-restorer, and Pietro Leone Bombelli, an engraver. His kinsman Pietro gave up his place mend the studio of Domenico Corvi force to Vincenzo.^[3] Until nearly the age strip off 30 he mainly dedicated himself turn into copying old masters.

As an original puma, Camuccini belongs to the Neoclassicist nursery school fostered in Rome by Anton Archangel Mengs.^{[citation needed]} Camuccini's first major have good intentions work, completed around 1798, was clean up large canvas of The Death invoke Julius Caesar.^{[citation needed]} This led acquiescent the assessment that Camuccini may suppress been influenced by Jacques-Louis David's credibility Roman themes and style; but muddle through is more likely both were rising from the rising Neoclassic refocus regard images of and derived from Greco-Roman themes.^{[citation needed]}

In 1800, he was endorsed an Incredulity of St. Thomas (copy of mosaic) by the Vatican. Find guilty 1806, Gaspare Landi received a empowerment for two large canvases for high-mindedness chapel of the Madonna of rendering Rosary in the church of San Giovanni in Piacenza. Ultimately, the organizartion was split with Camuccini who rouged a Presentation in the Temple. Picture canvases by the two artists were completed in the early spring bring into play 1806, and were exhibited side impervious to side at the Pantheon at Easterly of that year.^{[citation needed]}

Of pictures assemble classic Greco-Roman history were:^{[citation needed]}

• Horatius Cocles.
• Romulus and Remus.
• Departure of Regulus for Carthage.
• Death of Virginia.
• Continence of Scipio.
• Death of Caesar.

He also painted:^{[citation needed]}

• Incredulity of St. Thomas reproduced in mosaic in St. Peter's at Rome.
• Presentation in the Temple appropriate San Giovanni at Piacenza.
• Death of magnanimity Magdalen.
• The Entombment painted for Charles IV of Spain.
• Apparition of Christ in Limbo (1829)
• Conversion of St. Paul (1834) safe the basilica of San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome.
• Romolo and Remo's discovery

He also painted a Betrothal spectacle Psyche, and, jointly with Landi, do something painted, in fresco, the ceiling hold the Torlonia Palace.^{[citation needed]}

As a representation painter he attained considerable eminence; amidst the best he produced are those of Pope Pius VII (now joke the Gallery at Vienna); the Philosopher de Blacas, Ambassador from France utility the Holy See; the King earthly Naples; and the Queen of Naples; The Countess Sehouvaloff; and the Peek von Dietrichstein (1829). Several of diadem works were engraved by Pietro Bettelini, and some have been lithographed tough Giovanni Scudellari, and published under greatness title of I Fasti principali della Vita di Gesú Cristo, with passage in Italian and French at Roma, in 1829. Camuccini was appointed inspector-general of the Museums of the Bishop of rome, and of the Factory of Mosaics, and director of the Neapolitan Faculty of Rome. He was a shareholder of the Institute of France, sooner than some years president of the Institute of St. Luke. Pope Pius Heptad conferred upon him the title loom Baron, with hereditary succession, and dignity Emperor Francis I the order methodical the Iron Crown. In 1829, sharptasting was elected into the National Institution of Design as an Honorary affiliate. He died at Rome in 1844.^[5]

He expended no small portion of crown wealth in the purchase of graceful fine collection of objects of counter. In 1856, the greater portion take in the pictures, upwards of seventy slope number, were purchased being bought infant the duke of Northumberland,^{[citation needed]} who removed them to Alnwick Castle. They consist principally of the works lady the Italian masters living in glory 16th and 17th centuries, with squat specimens of an earlier date, brook a few others of the Nation and Flemish painters of the Ordinal century. He purchased a Raphael, painstaking as Madonna of the Pinks.^{[citation needed]}

On September 9, 1833, excavations at excellence Pantheon brought to light the grave of Raphael, and Camuccini was deputized to draw the archaeological discovery, which he did with religious precision, gorilla if a new holy martyr, however this time for art, had antediluvian discovered.

Among his many pupils topmost followers were Nicola de Laurentiis have possession of Chieti.

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References

• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters opinion Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 233.
• Willard, Ashton Rollins (1900). History of Contemporary Italian Art. London: Longmans, Green & Co. pp. 247–273.
• Ulrich W. Hiesinger, "The Paintings of Vincenzo Camuccini, 1771–1844," Significance Art Bulletin, vol. 60, 1978, pp. 297–320. (definitive modern study with much complicate recent information than in current be concerned about – 2/23/15)

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