Trained at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts alongside Federico de Madrazo, Luis de Ribera and Alejandro Ferrant, Ricardo de Villodas is today a little-known painter. He has transcended for his participation in the National Exhibitions of 1876, 1878 and 1887, as well as the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1878. His most famous painting is The Death of Caesar, of which we now present a sketch of the central figure in which the drapery of the fallen emperor is studied at the scene of his assassination during the Ides of March, next to the statue of Pompey.

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