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
Drawing by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Entrance to the Villa Albani from via Salaria, 92
Anton Raphael Mengs
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Anton Raphael Mengs was a Czech-Born German Neoclassical painter of Danish descent.
Villa Albani
…di Antinoo, the famous relief of Villa Adriana embellished the fireplace, and this room also hosts the famous fresco of Parnassus (1761), created by Anton Raphael Mengs for the vault of the Galleria, which would go on to become the pictorial manifesto of the nascent neoclassical style. Winckelmann was supported by…
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