Vincenzo Camuccini (1771-1844)

• Was an Italian Neoclassical painter.
• Camuccini was born in Rome on 22 February 1771.
• His father, Giovanni Battista, was a coal dealer of Ligurian origin.
• He received his first education from his brother Pietro, a picture-restorer, and Pietro Leone Bombelli, an engraver.
• His brother Pietro gave up his place in the studio of Domenico Corvi to Vincenzo.
• To this period can be assigned Camuccini's painting of The Sacrifice of Noah, reputed to have been his earliest original composition.
• After leaving Corvi's studio, Camuccini resumed an independent program of training under the supervision of his older brother Pietro.
• According to his own account, he spent three years (1787–89) studying the Vatican frescoes of Michelangelo and Raphael, and his fascination with them endured throughout his career.
• Camuccini published in 1806-07 a volume of drawings after Raphael's Transfiguration.
• Camuccini expended no small portion of his wealth in the purchase of a fine collection of objects of art.
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