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His grandfather Augustus the Emperor had decided to call him Agrippa Postumus because he was born after the death of his father, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. Agrippa, Augustus's right-hand man, friend and son-in-law, had in fact married Julia, the emperor's only daughter. In the Hall of Tapestries of the Capitoline Museums today it is possible to admire, gathered together in a single location, three portraits of Agrippa Postumus, two of which come from the Capitoline and the Vatican Museums, the third owned by the Sorgente Group Foundation. Initially designated for the imperial succession, Agrippa Postumus did not have the qualities to govern: his irascible character made him unsuitable for politics and for this reason he was forced into exile. After the death of Augustus, he was a victim of the power struggles that broke out in Rome and died at the hands of a centurion.