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VINCENZO CAMUCCINI (1773-1844)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 140 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAMUCCINI (1773-1844)  , See also:Italian See also:historical painter, was See also:born at See also:Rome . He was educated by his See also:brother Pietro, a picture-restorer, and Borubelli, an engraver, and, up to the See also:age of See also:thirty, attempted nothing higher than copies of the See also:great masters, his especial study being See also:Raphael . As an See also:original painter, See also:Camuccini belongs to the school of the See also:French artist See also:David . His See also:works are rather the fruits of great cleverness and patient care than of fresh and original See also:genius; and his See also:style was essentially imitative . He enjoyed immense popularity, both personally, and as an artist, and received many honours and, preferments from the papal and other Italian courts, He was appointed director of the See also:Academy of See also:San Luca and of the Neapolitan Academy at Rome, and See also:conservator of the pictures of the Vatican . He was also made See also:chevalier of nearly all the orders in See also:Italy, and member of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour . His See also:chief works are the classical paintings of the " Assassination of See also:Caesar," the " See also:Death of See also:Virginia," the " Devotion of the See also:Roman See also:Women," " See also:Young See also:Romulus and Remus," " Horatius Cocles," the " St See also:Thomas," which was copied in See also:mosaic for St See also:Peter's, the " Presentation of See also:Christ in the See also:Temple " and a number of excellent portraits . He became a See also:rich See also:man, and made a See also:fine collection of pictures which in 1856 were sold, a number of them (including Raphael's " Madonna with the See also:Pink ") being bought by the See also:duke of See also:Northumberland .

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