Vincenzo Camuccini, Manuel Godoy e l'Orazio Coclite ritrovato скачать в хорошем качестве

Vincenzo Camuccini, Manuel Godoy e l'Orazio Coclite ritrovato

Federica Giacomini talks about 'Horatius Cocles' One of the most important and representative paintings by the Neoclassical painter Vincenzo Camuccini (Rome, 1771-1844), the Horatius Cocles, was previously known only from documentary sources, a few preparatory sketches, and an engraving of it; in fact, traces of the work had already been lost just a few years after its completion in 1815. The painting has now re-emerged from oblivion after remaining for most of the twentieth century in a Danish private collection, without the Roman painter being recognized as the author of the work, nor having its genesis connected to an exceptional client, the Spaniard Manuel Godoy, Prince of Peace. Because the Horatius Cocles was painted in Rome, between 1813 and 1815, while Godoy, the erstwhile powerful Prime Minister to the King of Spain, Charles IV of Bourbon, was in exile in the papal capital along with the sovereign and his court, ousted from the throne by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1808.