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Lot description
This tempera on paper narrates one of the most significant events in the history of the foundation of Rome: the killing of Remus by his brother Romulus. The painter Andrea Appiani, born and educated in Lombardy, was one of the few Italian painters from the second half of the eighteenth century who gained a concrete European reputation. In 1791 he undertook a formative trip between Parma, Florence, Bologna, and Rome, which led him to enrich his repertoire with new themes and styles. However, he always remained linked to the Lombard environment, becoming a teacher at the Brera Academy and a leading painter in the Cisalpine Republic The painter’s vast activity, much appreciated by Napoleon, earned him the position of the first painter of the King of Italy in 1804. The violent nature of the scene here clashes with the desire to render a beauty expressed both in the practical artistic component and in the careful representation of nature. The result is an almost graceful depiction of a terrible event, rendered with great strength and sincerity through the use of canon.