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Anton Raphael Mengs

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Mengs, Anton Raphael 

Born Mar. 22, 1728, in Aussig, in present-day Ústì nad Labem, in Czechoslovakia; died June 29, 1779, in Rome. German painter and art theorist.

Mengs worked in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid. Under the influence of his friend J. J. Winckelmann, he adopted classicist principles both in his painting and theoretical works. Mengs’ works (the fresco Parnassus, 1761, Villa Albani, Rome) are marked by eclecticism, abstraction, and idealization. His drawings and portraits are particularly expressive (Self-portrait, Hermitage, Leningrad).

WORKS

Sämtliche hinterlassene Schriften, vols 1-2. Edited by G. Schilling, Bonn, 1843-44.
In Russian translation:
In Mastera iskusstva ob iskusstve, vol. 3. Moscow, 1967. Pages 459-67.

REFERENCE

Honisch, D. A. R. Mengs und die Bildform des Frühklassizismus. Berlin, 1965.
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That was followed by a long dearth of original talent, seldom interrupted until the heyday of Anton Raphael Mengs, who is represented by his Penitent Magdalen of 1752.
Pictures from Dresden at the Royal Academy by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review
In the eighteenth century, no less a figure than Anton Raphael Mengs described Velazquez's Fable of Arachne as "done in such a way that it seems as if the hand played no part in the execution, but that he painted it only as an act of will.
Velazquez: The Technique of Genius by STRATTON-PRUITT, SUZANNE L. / Renaissance Quarterly
This is not to undervalue the exhibition's abundance of first-rate works--pictures by such marvelously adept painters as the Tuscan Pompeo Batoni, now best known as a dazzling draftsman, then regarded as one of the two preeminent painters in Rome; the second, Anton Raphael Mengs, the transplanted son of a Dresden court painter, also figures prominently in the show.
Roman holiday by Wilkin, Karen / New Criterion
 
 
 
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