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Anton Raphael Mengs (12 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German painter, active in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid, who while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-18th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting, which replaced Rococo as the dominant painting style in Europe.
Anton Raphael Mengs (March 22, 1728 – June 29, 1779) was a German Bohemian painter, active in Rome, Madrid and Saxony, who became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting.
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- March 22, 1728
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- June 29, 1779
Anton Raphael Mengs was a Bohemian painter who was perhaps the leading artist of early Neoclassicism. Mengs studied under his father in Dresden, Saxony, and then in Rome. He became painter to the Saxon court in Dresden in 1745 and executed a large number of portraits, most in brightly coloured.
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Anton Raphael Mengs. German Painter. Born: March 12, 1728 - Ústí nad Labem, Bohemia, Habsburg Empire (Now the Czech Republic) Died: June 29, 1779 - Rome, Papal States. Movements and Styles: The Rococo. , Baroque Art and Architecture. , Neoclassicism.
- March 12, 1728
- June 29, 1779
Anton Raphael Mengs. 1728 - 1779. Born in Bohemia, Anton Raphael Mengs was trained by his father Ismael Mengs. He was a child prodigy and received great encouragement. He first visited Rome in 1741 and spent much of his life there. He became court painter in Dresden in 1745.
Mengs, Anton Raphael. Aussig (Czech Republic), 1728 - Rome (Italy), 1779. This German painter and treatise-writer was the most outstanding proponent of early neoclassicism. He began art studies in Dresden under the severe supervision of his father, Ismael Mengs, a painter at the court of Saxony.
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Jan 20, 2016 · Anton Raphael Mengs German. 1776. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 627. Born in Bohemia, today the Czech Republic, Mengs became an international celebrity, painting in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid in the third quarter of the eighteenth century.
