Anton Raphael Mengs
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Anton Raphael Mengs was a Czech-Born German Neoclassical painter of Danish descent.
Self-Portrait, c. 1775, Uffizi, Florence
Self-portrait, 1744
Self-Portrait, 1774 (on display at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
Mengs's grave in Rome
Villa Albani
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The Villa Albani is a villa in Rome, built on the Via Salaria for Cardinal Alessandro Albani. It was built between 1747 and 1767 by the architect Carlo Marchionni in a project heavily influenced by ot
Anton Raphael Mengs
…the Vatican painting school. In 1757, Mengs painted a superb fresco on the dome of the church of Sant'Eusebio in Rome. His fresco painting Parnassus at Villa Albani gained him a reputation as a master painter. On two occasions he accepted invitations from Charles III of Spain to go to Madrid, first in 1761. There…
Drawing by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Entrance to the Villa Albani from via Salaria, 92