Sunday, March 18, 2012

helios as personification of midday 1765, anton raphael mengs

helios as personification of midday 1765, anton raphael mengs

2 comments:

  1. For a Protestant German artist, Mengs spent a long time in Catholic Rome, didn't he? As a result, I have some trouble pinning him down to a particular style. Often we can see an individual portrait painted with restrained realism and rich colour. Then other times he launched into classical mythology and packed his images with characters and events.

    Do you like his Helios?

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  2. Hi Helen thanks for your comment. Anton Raphael Mengs was a German artist. His father, Ismael Mengs, was a Danish painter. Mengs was greatly inspired by Italian painting and the ancient Neoclassical style of Greece and Rome, He did spent most of him life in Rome working for the Vatican School of art. He had a few different styles of painting making it hard to pin him down to a particular style. Mengs became Catholic and left great art for us to admire today.

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