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    painting style in Europe. Mengs was born in 1728 at Ústí nad Labem (German: Aussig) in the Kingdom of Bohemia, the son of Ismael Mengs, a Danish-born painter...
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    under José Luzán y Martinez and moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs. He married Josefa Bayeu in 1773. Goya became a court painter to the...
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    Apotheosis of Trajan by A.R. Mengs. The Antechamber of Charles III (The Conversation Room) also contains a ceiling fresco by Mengs, The Apotheosis of Hercules...
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    in Rome. She was the elder sister of the better known painter Anton Raphael Mengs. Therese was born in the northern Bohemian town of Ústí nad Labem (German:...
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    Bartholomeus Spranger, Caspar van Wittel, Anton von Maron or Anton Raphaël Mengs. Corsican school (19th and 20th centuries): Tony Agostini, Jean-Baptiste...
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    metres by 8 metres in size, painted on canvas, dated 1755 by Anton Raphael Mengs, on display in the eastern Cast Court. Modern reproductions of the fresco...
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    de Rossi said of Batoni and Mengs the other prominent painter in Rome during the second half of the 18th century, that Mengs was made painter by philosophy:...
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    Maria Mengs, or Ana Carmona (1751–1792), was a German artist; known largely for portraits. Born in Dresden, she was the daughter of the painter Raphael Mengs...
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    des jüdischen Wissens. 3rd ed., Berlin 1936, pp.469–470 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ismael Mengs. Biography of Mengs @ the Stadtwiki Dresden...
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    at Porta Salaria. With the aid of his new friend, the painter Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–79), with whom he first lived in Rome, Winckelmann devoted himself...
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    79–85. Noted by A. D. Potts, "Greek Sculpture and Roman Copies I: Anton Raphael Mengs and the Eighteenth Century", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes...
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    work on the decorative works for the royal palaces. By then, Anton Raphael Mengs was the most prominent artist at the court after Tiepolo's death in...
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  • The god Helios in a painting by Anton Raphael Mengs....
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    paintings by Pompeo Batoni, Anton Raphael Mengs, Carlo Maratta, Guido Reni, and Guercino, among others; modern copies of Raphael's paintings; drawings by artists...
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    Charlotte Mengs (c. 1730 – after 1806) was a German painter. Julia Charlotte was born in Bohemia, into the Lutheran family of Danish painter Ismael Mengs, a...
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    Portrait of Ferdinand IV (category Portraits by Anton Raphael Mengs)
    Portrait of Ferdinand IV is an 1759 painting by Anton Raphael Mengs, now in the National Museum of Capodimonte, in Naples. It depicts Ferdinand IV of...
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    Jean Miélot's L'Epître d'Othéa c. 1460 Das Urteil des Paris by Anton Raphael Mengs, c. 1757 El Juicio de Paris by Enrique Simonet, 1904 Discordia, the...
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    von Haller – Swiss anatomist and physiologist (Schadow, 1808) 128. Raphael Mengs – Bohemian painter (Rauch, 1808) 129. Maria Theresia (Eberhard, 1811/2)...
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  • fresco Parnassus, made by Anton Raphael Mengs for the Villa Albani in 1761, which in turn was inspired by Raphael's paintings for the Stanza della Segnatura...
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    entirely uninteresting to us"—some of Kenneth Clark's comments on Anton Raphael Mengs' ambitious Parnassus at the Villa Albani, by the artist whom his friend...
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    the church. They were replaced by an identically themed set by Anton Raphael Mengs, whose neo-classicism was more to Charles III's taste. Finally The Immaculate...
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    Johann Joachim Winckelmann (Raphael Mengs after 1755)...
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    Velasquez." The critic, James Grieg hypothesised that it was by Anton Raphael Mengs—although he found little support for his idea—and there was more serious...
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    Dresden, and went in 1752 to Rome, where, under the tuition of Anton Raphael Mengs, he became an accomplished artist in pencil and crayon. Among other...
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    into his embrace. That engraving however was nothing but a copy of Raphael Mengs's counterfeit Roman fresco, painted as a practical joke on the eighteenth-century...
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    Bellotto (Italian, 1720–1780), Canaletto's nephew depicting Warsaw Anton Raphael Mengs (German, 1728–1779), friend of Johann Joachim Winckelmann Johann Zoffany...
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    Hesperus as Personification of the Evening Star by Anton Raphael Mengs (1765)....
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    Buonaparte Noble Patrician of Tuscany Portrait attributed to Anton Raphael Mengs, between c. 1766–1779 Full name Carlo Maria Buonaparte Born 27 March...
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    apparently warranted the attention of the Neoclassical painter Anton Raphael Mengs. Some of the preliminary paintings he completed in Madrid included a...
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    one of the many works depicting the event. Hera is the goddess in the center, wearing the crown. Das Urteil des Paris by Anton Raphael Mengs, ca. 1757...
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