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CESARE MACCARI Italian 1840-1919 Oil on Canvas

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CESARE MACCARI Italian 1840-1919 Oil on Canvas
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Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring a figure on a plane. Signed and attr. Cesare Maccari (Italian, 1840-1919) on the lower edge and on verso. 22.5 x 29 cm (8.9 x 11.4 inches). Frame size: 29 x 36.5 cm (11.4 x 14.3 inches). Cesare Maccari was an Italian painter and sculptor, most famous for his 1888 painting Cicerone denuncia Catalina (usually translated as Cicero Accuses Catiline or Cicero Denounces Catiline). Maccari's most famous work of art depicts Cicero's Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita, his first speech denouncing Catiline in the Roman Senate which drove him from the city (63 BC). Maccari has been praised for the way his paintings captured the description of events and how Catiline has been avoided by his fellow senators and sat alone while Cicero attacked him.[5] On the other hand, his work has been criticized for some historical inaccuracy since he depicted the Senate meeting in the wrong place: the Senate actually met in the Temple of Jupiter Stator, not in the Senate House (Curia Cornelia). Cicero was 43 years old at the time but looks much older, and Catiline, who was two years older than Cicero, looks much younger than Cicero. The painting has been reproduced in many textbooks and histories of Rome, and its depiction of the Roman Senate has even influenced the presentation of the Senate of the Roman Republic in nonfiction books. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate