Franz Caucig

Count Guido von Cobenzl, who spent the last years of his life in Gorizia, recognised the talent in the young boy, so when he was 20, he sent him to his son Philipp, who was very influential at the Austrian court, and who then greatly contributed to Caucig's education and further career.

[5] From 1787 till 1791, he lived in Vienna, and in 1791, he was enabled in the same way to visit Mantua, where he particularly copied Giulio Romano and reliefs on ancient sarcophagi.

[1][6] Caucig was acquainted with the French Neoclassicism (for example, he saw the Oath of the Horatii in 1784), but was most influenced by Raphael and by the School of Bologna, and also by the Baroque in the sense of dramatic diagonals.

In accordance with the ideals of his era, lines are sharp, the composition is transparent and balanced, and the ratios of figures and objects are proportionate, the space is defined with architectural elements, whereas colours are cold and of secondary importance.

[10] • Johannes Röll: Ein Porträt des Malers Franz Caucig in einem Zeichnungsalbum der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana 40, 2011/12 (2016), 289-309 • Johannes Röll e Ksenija Rozman: Franz Caucig: Die italienischen Landschaftszeichnungen.