He was a member of the Institute of France, during some years president of the Academy of St. Camuccini was appointed inspector-general of the Museums of the Pope, and of the Factory of Mosaics, and director of the Neapolitan Academy of Rome. Several of his works were engraved by Pietro Bettelini, and some have been lithographed by Giovanni Scudellari, and published under the title of I Fasti principali della Vita di Gesú Cristo, with text in Italian and French at Rome, in 1829. He also painted a Betrothal of Psyche, and, jointly with Landi, he painted, in fresco, the ceiling of the Torlonia Palace.Īs a portrait painter he attained considerable eminence among the best he produced are those of Pope Pius VII (now in the Gallery at Vienna) the Comte de Blacas, Ambassador from France to the Holy See the King of Naples and the Queen of Naples The Countess Sehouvaloff and the Countess von Dietrichstein (1829). In Paris, he met Napoleon, David, Perodet, Gros, Regnault, and M. The canvases by the two artists were completed in the early spring of 1806, and were exhibited side by side at the Pantheon at Easter of that year.Ī few years later, he was invited to Munich and Paris, the latter government had requested a painting on the Battle of Ratisbon, but he asked and obtain other topics. Ultimately, the commission was split with Camuccini who painted a Presentation in the Temple. In 1806, Gaspare Landi received a commission for two large canvases for the chapel of the Madonna of the Rosary in the church of San Giovanni in Piacenza. In 1800, he was commissioned an Incredulity of St. 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. Camuccini's first major independent work, completed around 1798, was a large canvas of The Death of Julius Caesar. Until nearly the age of 30 he mainly dedicated himself to copying old masters.Īs an original painter, Camuccini belongs to the Neoclassicist school fostered in Rome by Anton Raphael Mengs. His brother Pietro gave up his place in the studio of Domenico Corvi to Vincenzo. He was considered the premier academic painter of his time in Rome.Ĭamuccini was born in Rome, and first educated by his brother Pietro, a picture-restorer, and Pietro Leone Bombelli, an engraver. Vincenzo Camuccini was an Italian painter of Neoclassic histories and religious paintings.
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