Baroque and Rococo

 

Baroque and Rococo Art Map










Anton Raphael Mengs




 



 

Anton Raphael Mengs

(b Ústi nad Labem [Ger. Aussig], Bohemia (now in Czech Republic), 12 March 1728; d Rome, 29 June 1779).

Painter and writer, brother of Theresia Concordia Mengs. 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. As an early exponent of Neo-classicism he produced some impressive classical and religious scenes, though he was most accomplished as a portrait painter. Under the influence of Johann Joachim Winckelmann he also wrote some theoretical works, of which the most important is the Gedanken über die Schönheit und über den Geschmack in der Malerey (1762). Although acclaimed during his lifetime, he was later regarded as an unimaginative eclectic, a view that continues to be widely held.


 

 


Self-Portrait


 


The Holy Family with the Infant St John the Baptist

1763
Oil on canvas, 200 x 136 cm
Private collection



 


Ferdinand IV, King of Naples

1760
Oil on canvas, 179 x 130 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid



 

The Holy Family

1769
Oil on canvas, 112 x 91 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest



 

Maria Luisa of Parma

1765
Oil on canvas, 48 x 38 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid



 

Glory of St Eusebius

1757
Fresco
Chiesa di Sant'Eusebio, Rome



 

Portrait of Johann Joachim Winckelman

1761-62
Oil on canvas, 64 x 49 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York



 

Arciduca Ferdinanado e arciduchessa Maria Anna d'Asburgo- Lorena



 

Ritratto allegorico di James Caulfield, lor Charlemont



 


Carlos III



 

Carlos IV, principe de Asturias



 

El archiduque Francisco de Austria, despues emperador



 

El infante Don Antonio Pascual de Borbon



 

El infante Don Gabriel de Borbon



 

El infante Don Javier de Borbon