 "Whitby Gazette (Whitby, England)")
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Duo vow to return to tackle African poverty.
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TWO aid workers who recently returned from West Africa have vowed to continue their efforts to support a poverty stricken country.
Whitby women Sue Beck and Carole Elliott spent two weeks helping the people of Burkina Faso.
They were humbled by the poverty they saw which included a one-year-old girl who weighed just three kilos, an ambulance stretcher on the back of a motorbike and a 10-year-old girl carrying 20 litres of water on her head.
The pair, who both attend Whitby Christian Fellowship, were inspired to take the trip after meeting Pastor ...
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Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) (Art)
Magazine article from: The Nation
; A portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs of Carlos III of Spain marks the threshold...was altogether his achievement. And Mengs, who came to Spain at Carlos's invitation...the neo-classical style, for which Mengs tirelessly campaigned. One can sense...
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An After-Dinner speech.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Ploughshares
; loquitur: Anton Raphael Mengs Court-Painter elect to Charles III...distinction of your company. "Old Mengs," you call me among yourselves, and...young Ben West (young then as I am old Mengs now) in the courtyard of the Belvedere...
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Sense and sensuality
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...High Renaissance -- Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian -- Correggio...Piacenza, who was in touch with Raphael and his circle, helped him to...200 years ago the German artist Anton Raphael Mengs, whose father had named him after...
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Old Master gems: surprises from the fringe
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...century European art scene. Anton Raphael Mengs, born in Aussig, in the German...Republic, was the son of Ismael Mengs, a miniaturist painter to the...him off to Rome. Eventually, Mengs would spend most of his career...
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Correggio's blend of sensuality and innocence
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...so. The German artist Anton Raphael Mengs, whose father had named...have seen the works of Raphael and Michelangelo in Rome...already in contact with Raphael and his circle.) Correggio...unseen by outsiders until Mengs "rediscovered" them...
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Portraits bind two nations; Spain-U.S. ties illuminated.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...halting and covert. Starting the show is court painter Anton Raphael Mengs' big-nosed portrait of King Charles III, who blew...have the benefit of being shown with the portrait by Mengs, who was Goya's teacher, and others by disciples...
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Goya led way from official to personal art
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...invited to join the royal roster of tapestry designers by Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779), a Bohemian artist who worked in Spain, on and off, between 1761 and 1776. (Mengs may well have been influenced by another painter, Francisco...
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A world of spectacle
Magazine article from: Humanities
; ...portrait sculptor born in Ireland. On the scene, too, were Welsh landscape painter Thomas Jones, Saxon painter Anton Raphael Mengs, and Claude-Joseph Vernet and Jacques-Louis David, who played a major role in the development of French painting...
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Esthetique neo-classique et romantisme.(French neoclassicism and romaticism)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
; ...Antichita di Ercolano esposte [1757-1792]) et degagement de Pompei (a partir de 1748). ARome, l'Allemand Anton Raphael Mengs et l'Ecossais Gavin Hamilton recommanderent de ne plus juger les productions artistiques qu'a l'aune des prototypes...
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Exhibition reveals more about first major landscape painter; WILSON AT WORK: Two-year project presents discoveries about artist's painting techniques.(Arts)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...many of the artist's finest works, including Dolbadarn Castle and A Maid of Honour. CAPTION(S): PORTRAIT: Anton Raphael Mengs, by Wilson in 1752 LANDSCAPE: A detail from Dolbadarn Castle, by Richard Wilson, oil on canvas
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