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	Anton Raphael Mengs Summary
		Anton Raphael Mengs was born in Aussig, Bohemia, on March 22, 1728, the son of a painter, Ismael Mengs, whose pupil he became.
		Anton Raphael Mengs (March 12, 1728 - June 29, 1779) was a German painter, the foremost German representative of the Neoclassical painting.
		Mengs was born in 1728 at Usti (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.
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	Anton Raphael Mengs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anton Raphael Mengs (March 12, 1728 - June 29, 1779) was a German painter.
		Mengs was born in 1728 at Usti (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.
		In his writings, in Spanish, Italian and German, Mengs has put forth his eclectic theory of art, which treats of perfection as attainable by a well-schemed combination of diverse excellences Greek design, with the expression of Raphael, the chiaroscuro of Correggio, and the colour of Titian.
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	Anton Raphael Mengs - Wikipedia
		Mengs war mit vielen Künstlern und Literaten seiner Zeit befreundet, wie z.B. der Markgräfin Wilhelmine von Bayreuth, Johann Joachim Winckelmann und Giacomo Casanova, der ihn mehrmals in seinen Memoiren erwähnt.
		Der internationale Ruhm, den Mengs in seiner Zeit genoß, zeigt sich an seiner sukzessive Aufnahme in die Akademien von Bologna, Rom, Florenz, Genua, Venedig, Augsburg und Madrid.
		Der Inbegriff aller beschriebenen Schönheiten in den Figuren der Alten findet sich in den unsterblichen Werken Hernn Anton Raphael Mengs, ersten Hofmalers der Könige von Spanien und von Pohlen, des größten Künstlers seiner, und vielleicht auch der folgenden Zeit.
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	Biography
		Mengs returned to Rome in the early 1750s, and about 1755 he became a close friend of the German archaeologist and art critic J.J. Winckelmann.
		Mengs also continued to paint portraits during this period, competing with Pompeo Batoni, the leading Rococo portraitist of the Roman school.
		From 1769 to 1772 Mengs was in Rome, decorating the Camera dei Papiri in the Vatican, and he returned to Spain from 1773 to 1777.
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	VIA ARTIS - Anton Raphael Mengs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Anton Raphael Mengs was born at Aussig, Bohemia, at present Czech Republic, on March 22, 1728 and died on June 29, 1779 in Rome.
		It is important to make a mention of the fact that between 1740 and 1744, the young Mengs, aged twelve, visited Rome in order to study the Classical painters, as well as to copy the Vatican frescoes, particularly those executed by Raphael.
		Mengs was working in the Vatican, Rome, between 1769 and 1772, later returning to Spain, where the artist remained from 1773 to 1777.
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	ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Although Anton Rafael Mengs was born in Bohemia he was of German ancestry, his parents returning to Saxony soon after his birth.
		Mengs received his earliest training from his father in Dresden and during a youthful sojourn in Rome, where he studied the great Italian renaissance painters and worked in the studio of Marco Benefial.
		Mengs’ abilities were further tested when he was commissioned to paint a series of portraits for Augustus III’s son in law, Charles VII, at the court of Naples.
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	Mengs, Anton Raphael -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Considered by his contemporaries to be the finest Spanish painter of the period, he was greatly influenced by Anton Raphael Mengs and the Italian Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, both painters at the court of Charles.
		The Russian musician Anton Rubinstein is known as one of the greatest pianists of the 19th century.
		The Austrian composer Anton Bruckner is now known primarily for his monumental ten symphonies, but they did not begin to receive universal acceptance until after World War I. His sacred music represents the culmination of the great tradition of Austrian church music.
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	Anton Raphael Mengs - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Anton Raphael Mengs (Aussig, Bohemia, 1728 - Roma, 1779), conocido también como Antonio Rafael Mengs, pintor neoclásico y teórico alemán cuya obra se desarrolla fundamentalmente en España.
		Se formó en Dresde bajo la dirección de su padre, Ismael Mengs, para viajar más tarde a Roma (1741) a fin de completar su educación artística.
		Pintor del rey Augusto III de Polonia desde 1746, volvió de nuevo a Italia en 1748, donde alternó la actividad artística con la difusión de sus ideas estéticas de retorno a la antigüedad clásica (escribió la obra Reflexiones sobre la belleza), estableciéndose definitivamente en la ciudad en 1752, después de contraer matrimonio con una italiana.
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	Anton Raphael Mengs in Spanish Literature - Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
		Mengs believed that the Academy should be primarily a school of and for artists, yet it also contained highly placed laymen who saw it as a tool in the government's program of enlightenment and development.
		Mengs, «the son of Apollo and of Minerva», is prized both for his art and for his learning, both as a model and as a guide.
		Pelzel considers Mengs «a painter of major talents» who was «one of the last major painters of the Renaissance-Baroque tradition» (260-62), a judgment similar to Woermann's (293); von Einem calls him «the most important representative of the new classicism» of the late eighteenth century (ed.
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	Anton Raphael Mengs Online
		Mengs' students included Goya, Jose del Castillo, JFA Tischbein, Peder Als, Richard Brompton and Giacomo Quarenghi.
		Anton Raphael Mengs at the Louvre Museum, Paris
		Anton Raphael Mengs in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
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	Anton Raphael Mengs (Getty Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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.
		Aside from time spent working as a court painter in Dresden and in Madrid, Mengs spent the remainder of his life in Italy painting altarpieces, frescoes, and Grand Tour portraits of young English aristocrats, for whom he also acted as an art and antiquities dealer.
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	AllRefer.com - Anton Raphael Mengs (European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Anton Raphael Mengs, European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biographies
		Anton Raphael Mengs[An´tOn rA´fAel mengs] Pronunciation Key, 1728–79, German historical and portrait painter, b.
		He was the pupil of his father, Ismael Mengs (c.1688–1764), a Dresden miniaturist who took him to Italy in 1741.
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		Anton received his earliest training from his father in Dresden and in Rome, where he studied Italian Renaissance painters and worked in the studio of Marco Benefial.
		Mengs came to share Winckelmann's enthusiasm for classical antiquity, and worked to establish the dominance of Neoclassical painting.
		Charles III and, as his court painter, Mengs spent several years (1761-1769) in Madrid, painting decorations in the Royal Palace and portraying the important persons belonging to the court.
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		Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter and theorist, was born in Aussig, Bohemia in 1728 and died in Rome in 1779.
		His first teacher was his father Ismael, a painter and a miniaturist from Dresden, working for the court of August III of Saxony, who in 1741 sent him to Rome, where Anton Raphael could complete his artistic formation studying the ancient art and the works of great Italian masters.
		After a short sojourn in Dresden, where he began his activity as a painter, Mengs returned in Italy, first in Venice and then in Rome for good.
	www.italycyberguide.com /Art/artistsarchite/mengs.htm (183 words)

	Anton Raphael Mengs (1728 - 1779) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Anton Raphael Mengs began studying art at the age of twelve.
		Anton Raphael Mengs, Susanna and the Elders, 18th century
		Anton Raphael Mengs - Portrait of John Viscount Garlies, later 7th Earl of Galloway, as Master of Garlies 1758 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art German
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	Parnassus, by Mengs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This painting was a sketch for Mengs's fresco of 1761 in the central part of the ceiling of the Villa Albani in Rome, commissioned by Cardinal Alessandro Albani.
		The whole painting is redolent with the influence of Raphael's frescoes on the same theme in the Vatican apartment in Rome.
		In the centre is Apollo, or Apollo Musagetes, the Sun God, patron of the arts and leader of the Muses, with his attributes of a lyre, a laurel wreath upon his head and one in his hand.
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		MAGAZINES The Nation 7/10/1989 Danto, Arthur C. A portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs of Carlos III of Spain marks...
		Among these were Anton Raphael Mengs, Christopher Hewetson...
		Mengs modeled his death on Raphael's just as he did his art...
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	Antón Raphael Mengs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mengs fue llevado en 1728 en Usti (Aussig) en Bohemia, solamente su padre, Ismael Mengs, pintor danés, establecido finalmente en Dresden, de dónde en 1741 él llevó a su hijo a Roma.
		Allí Mengs produjo algo de su mejor trabajo, y especialmente el techo del banquetear-pasillo, el tema de el cual era el triunfo Trajan y el templo de la gloria.
		Prange (1786); Bildende Kunst (1880) del für de Zeitschrift; Bianconi, storico di Mengs (Milano, 1780) de Elogio; Woermann, und Raphael Mengs (Leipzig, 1893) de Ismael.
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	artnet.com: Resource Library: Mengs: (2) Anton Raphael Mengs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		His early career was at the Dresden court; thereafter he worked principally in Rome and Madrid, notably on the frescoes at the Villa Albani and the Palacio Real respectively.
		Mengs: (2) Anton Raphael Mengs, §1(i): Dresden and Italy, to 1755
		Mengs: (2) Anton Raphael Mengs, §1(ii): Rome and Naples, 1756–61
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		Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of Johann Joahim Winkelmann
		Anton Raphael Mengs Ferdinand IV King of Naples
		Anton Raphael Mengs The Adoration of the Shepherds
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	Anton Raphael Mengs -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Anton Raphael Mengs -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Anton Raphael Mengs (March 12, 1728 - June 29, 1779) was a (A person of German nationality) German (An artist who paints) painter.
		Besides numerous paintings in the Madrid gallery, the Ascension and St Joseph at Dresden, Perseus and Andromeda at (A city in western Florida on Tampa Bay; a popular winter resort) Saint Petersburg, and the ceiling of the Villa Albani must be mentioned among his chief works.
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	Anton Raphael Mengs: Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) (48.141) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Anton Raphael Mengs: Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) (48.141)
		One of the most influential writers on art—his Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Art in Paintings and Sculpture was published in Dresden in 1755, and his History of Ancient Art appeared in 1764—Johann Joachim Winckelmann was also a close friend and admirer of Mengs, the leading exponent of the nascent Neoclassical movement in Rome.
		In this portrait, painted shortly after Winckelmann settled in Rome in 1755, the great writer/archaeologist is shown holding a Greek edition of Homer's Iliad.
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		Anton Raphael Mengs (1728 — 1779) Bohemian born, of German ancestry and, considered the leading German painter of the 18th Century.
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