Anton Raphael Mengs

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Style: Neo-Classicism;

Place: Ústí Nad Labem

Born: 1728

Death: 1779

Biography:

Anton Raphael Mengs (March 22, 1728 – June 29, 1779) was a German Bohemian painter, active in Rome, Madrid and Saxony, who while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-17th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting that replaced Rococo as the dominant painting syle. Mengs was born in 1728 at Ústí nad Labem (German: Aussig) in ...

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