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Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) (Art)
; 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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Anniversaries
; Births: Maximilian I, Holy Roman emperor, 1459; Sir Anthony van Dyck, painter, 1599; Anton Raphael Mengs, painter, 1728; Wilhelm I, King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany, 1797; John Frederick Kensett, artist, 1816; Randolph Caldecott...
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Sense and sensuality
; ...Italian High Renaissance -- Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian -- Correggio...da Piacenza, who was in touch with Raphael and his circle, helped him to go there...over 200 years ago the German artist Anton Raphael Mengs, whose father had named him after...not only must have seen the ...
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Portraits bind two nations; Spain-U.S. ties illuminated.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)
; ...halting and covert. Starting the show is court painter Anton Raphael Mengs' big-nosed portrait of King Charles III, who blew hot...have the benefit of being shown with the portrait by Mengs, who was Goya's teacher, and others by disciples such...
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Goya led way from official to personal art
; ...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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Old Master gems: surprises from the fringe
; ...18th-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 court...sent him off to Rome. Eventually, Mengs would spend most of his career...
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Prado celebrates Edouard Manet
; ...Weyden); German paintings from 1450 to 1800 (Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach and Anton Raphael Mengs), Italian paintings from 1300 to 1800 (Botticelli, Tiepolo, Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Caravaggio), and British paintings from 1700- 1800 (Gainsborough...
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(book review)
; ...verbalizing what his visual study of Velazquez's paintings might reveal. 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...
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Family Day at Phillips
; ...workshop beginning Dec. 11 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. "The Adoration of the Shepherds," a 1770s painting by Raphael Anton Mengs that hangs in the Corcoran, is the starting point for examining shepherds and angels and other familiar Nativity...
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Los maestros barrocos de Dresde.(pintura; exposición; Sala de Exposiciones del BBV; Madrid, España)(TT: The Baroque masters of Dresden.)(TA: painting, exhibition; BBV Exhibitions Hall; Madrid, Spain)
; ...225;tica de Silvestre y Dietrich, los expresivos retratos de Pietro Graf Rotari, así como los lienzos de Anton Raphael Mengs. Muchos pintores llegados de fuera triunfaron en Dresde. Este fue el caso de los italianos Crespi y Piazzetta...
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