Offering to Lares
Medium
Lithograph on paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.8 × 33.5 cm (8 1/4 × 13 1/4 in.); Sheet: 24 × 36.5 cm (9 1/2 × 14 3/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
42978
Art Historical Context
**Offering to Lares** Vincenzo Camuccini, 1810 Lithograph on paper, Image: 20.8 × 33.5 cm Step into the ancient Roman world through Vincenzo Camuccini's *Offering to Lares* (1810), a captivating lithograph that depicts a ritual honoring the Lares—household guardian deities central to Roman domestic life. Camuccini, a prominent Italian neoclassical artist, drew inspiration from classical antiquity, evoking the solemn piety of everyday worship with figures presenting gifts at a family shrine. This print, housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings Department, measures a m...
About the Artist
Vincenzo Camuccini · 1771–1844
Comment on works: Portraits; History