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In 1773 Mengs was granted the privilege of hanging his portrait in the Florence gallery of artists’ portraits founded by Giorgio Vasari in the mid-16th century. Allegedly, he chose the spot himself: having been celebrated as “the new Raphael”, he promptly placed his portrait beneath the one of the great Italian painter.
Anton Raphael Mengs in Spanish Literature. John H. R. Polt. University of California, Emeritus. The Prado Museum Commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Anton Raphael Mengs with a special exhibition in 1929, and the bicentennial of his death with another exhibition in 1980; but not long ago his paintings hung only in a smallish room on its third floor, not infrequently closed.
MENGS, ANTONY RAPHAEL (1728-1779), German painter, was born in 1728 at Aussig in Bohemia, but his father, Ismael Mengs, a Danish painter, established himself finally at Dresden, whence in 1741 he took his son to Rome. The appointment of Mengs in 1749 as first painter to the elector of Saxony did not prevent his spending much time in Rome, where he had married in 1748, and abjured the ...
18 de ene. de 2024 · Anton Raphael Mengs. Like many artists during the 1700s, Anton Raphael Mengs developed his masterful painting skills by studying works from antiquity, the Renaissance, and the Baroque, all of which he encountered while in Italy. Mengs began to study art seriously at the age of twelve, when he accompanied his father on a trip to Rome.
Anton Raphael Mengs. (b Aussig, Bohemia [now Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic], 12 Mar. 1728; d Rome, 29 June 1779). German painter, the son of a court painter in Dresden, Ismael Mengs (1688–1764). His father brought him up with harsh severity to be a great painter, on the models particularly of Correggio and Raphael (from whom he gained his ...
