Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the differences between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art. "The prophet and
Portrait by Raphael Mengs, after 1755
Johann Joachim Winckelmann by Ferdinand Pettrich, 1866, Albertinum, Dresden
Johann Joachim Winckelmann by Friedrich Wilhelm Doell 1778, Museum of Old Masters, Dresden
Portrait of Johann Joachim Winckelmann against classical landscape, after 1760 (Royal Castle in Warsaw)
Anton Raphael Mengs
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Anton Raphael Mengs was a Czech-Born German Neoclassical painter of Danish descent.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
…Cardinal Albani, who was forming his magnificent collection of antiquities in the villa 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 to the study of Roman antiquities and gradually acquired an unrivalled knowledge…
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