Vae Tyrannis (Filippini)

Vae Tyrannis (also known as La morte di Caligola) is a 19th-century late impressionist painted in oil by Francesco Filippini. It was painted about 1880, in Milano, Italy, is in the collection of the Civic Museums of Brescia (inv.n. 320).
Description.
It is a work that is part of Filippini's artistic beginning based on historical subjects, also necessary to be able to win prizes to support himself, for which he treasures his studies in Brera with Bernini. Thanks to this work he will in fact receive the Brozzoni Prize, with which the Municipality of Brescia will buy "La morte di Caligola" for a very high sum at the time, 1,200 Italian lire in 1879, renaming it "Vae Tyrannis". The Opera will achieve considerable notoriety among art critics both in Italy and abroad.
Filippini will create another canvas, 280 x 150 cm, entitled "Vae Tyrannis" with which to participate in the Fumagalli artistic competition in 1800, and which will be exhibited in the same year at the Brera Academy in Milan. 
Filippini finding economic stability and success, completely abandoned historical subjects in the early 1800s.