13 Facts About Cesare Maccari

Cesare Maccari was an Italian painter and sculptor, most famous for his 1888 painting Cicerone denuncia Catilina.

Cesare Maccari was a student of the Institute of the Fine Arts in Siena together with Tito Sarrocchi, working in sculpture and helping complete the Monumento Pianigiani in Siena.

Cesare Maccari later worked in the atelier of Luigi Mussini in Florence.

Cesare Maccari soon won a stipend to study in Rome, that allowed him to travel through Italy.

Cesare Maccari painted two figures in the church of Santa Francesca Romana.

Cesare Maccari painted the lunette above the tomb of the Lombardi in Campo Verano.

Cesare Maccari painted in tempera: Love crowning the three Graces At the 1878 Turin Exposition, he sent an oil canvas depicting The Deposition of Pope Silverius by Antonina, wife of Belisarius.

In 1863, Cesare Maccari painted Leonardo che ritrae la Gioconda which won an award in 1865.

Between 1882 and 1888 Cesare Maccari painted a series of frescoes depicting famous events in the history of the Senate of Ancient Roman at the "Sala Cesare Maccari" in the Salone d'Onore of Rome's Palazzo Madama, seat of the Italian Senate, amongst them his most famous work, Cicero Denounces Catiline.

Cesare Maccari designed and completed the frescoes for the cupola of the Basilica di Loreto, completed in 1890 to 1907, and which replaced the frescoes of Cristoforo Roncalli, from the second decade of the 17th century, which had badly deteriorated.

In later life, Cesare Maccari became a lecturer at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.

Cesare Maccari became paralyzed while he was working on the Palace of Justice in Rome in 1909 and as a result stopped working as an artist.

Cesare 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.