Reference code
LAW/4/152
Title
Pietro Camuccini, Rome, to Sir Thomas Lawrence, President of the Royal Academy, London
Date
[30] Sep 1823
Level
Item
Extent & medium
1 piece
Content Description
Describing the general regret in Rome at the death of the
Pope,
Consalvi was with him at the end; he describes a picture that he has repaired and is now rehung in a chapel, he has not heard any more about the Sistine Chapel and so hopes thwe new Pope will be a lover of the arts; he is now working on thirteen frescoes by
Mantegna, recently found neglected in the Vatican; he describes the recent professional activities of his
brother.