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WICAR'S ROOM:
In this room is located the large oil painting The reading of the VIth book of the Aeneid by the French painter Jean-Baptiste Wicar (1762-1834). 23 b.C., Rome: in front of the emperor Augustus, the poet Virgil is reading his poem. Ottavia, Augustus' sister, faints while she's listening to the verses that evoke in her mind the death of her son, Marcello. Augustus stops the reading; Virgil stands to the left; to the right are Maecenas and general Agrippa, portraits of Sommariva and Napoleon. This painting was commissioned in 1818, thanks to Antonio Canova, and before arriving in the villa of Tremezzo was exhibit with great success in Milan in 1821.
Next to the large painting are located a portrait in plaster of G. B. Sommariva (about 1830) and a portrait in alabaster of Napoleon the Emperor (1805) by the Dutch Van Lint, before in the hall of mirrors of the Royal Palace in Milan.