Workshop Of Vincenzo Camuccini (rome, 22 February 1771 - Rome, 2 September 1844) Presentation

Son of Giovanni Battista, a coal merchant from Liguria, and Teresa Rotti, Vincenzo Camuccini was born in Rome in February 1771. Encouraged and supported by his older brother Pietro, he began his training in painting with Domenico Corvi (Viterbo, 1721 - Rome, 1803), an esteemed teacher and academician of San Luca. Inclined to the dramatic effects of contrasts of light and shadow, of distant Caravaggio ancestry, the Corvi was however obedient to the classical solutions proposed to the painting of the eighteenth century by the predominant authority of Pompeo Batoni; and to the pupils he transmitted the typical ways of that academicism, anything but dogmatic, as shown by the different outcomes of Landi and Cades, co-disciples of Camuccini. In addition to Batoni, other fundamental reference point for the cultural and artistic formation of Camuccini were Mengs, active in Rome at the end of the eighteenth century, and Winkelmann, whose writings on classical art particularly conditioned the work of the painter. Among the first works of the artist, which already testify to his faithful adherence to the stylistic of classicism, we remember the copy of the Deposition of Raphael (1789), executed for Lord Bristol, and Archelao with Paride boy fresco realized for a ceiling of the Villa Borghese, Renewed in those years under the direction of Asprucci. After a training stay in Florence, conducted in the 1890s, during which he had the opportunity to meet and develop friendships with Bossi and Appiani, Camuccini returned to Rome, where, from 1802, he joined the Academy of S. Luca, where his Finding of Paris remains.