Ippolito Caffi

Ippolito Caffi (1809–1866) was an Italian painter of architectural subjects and seascapes or urban vedute.

He subsequently moved to Rome, made some reputation by his treatise on perspective, as well as by his investigations on Roman archaeology.

In 1843 he visited Greece and the East (Athens, Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, and Malta).

His aim of commemorating in paint the first Italian naval engagement was frustrated when the Re d' Italia, on which he travelled, was destroyed on 20 July 1866 by the Austro-Venetian fleet at the battle of Lissa, drowning him along with his comrades.

In 2005–2006, an exhibition on Ippolito Caffi was held in his native Belluno.