A celestial goddess clad in loose-flowing fabric and garlanded in floral blossoms drops flowers down upon the awakening world below
Mistigram: Kick off the change into spring in style, with @ascii.mozz.us ' monochrome #ASCIIart adaptation of #AntonRaphaelMengs' ~1769 painting of #Aurora, the divine personification of the dawn. This piece was one of many by Mozz included in last month's unthemed new MIST0226 artpack collection.
De Rome à Madrid, le @museodelprado.es consacre une grande rétrospective de qualité au chef de file du néoclassicisme #AntonRaphaelMengs. Parmi les 159 œuvres présentées, on retiendra en particulier les portraits du pape Clément XIII et de la famille royale espagnole. A voir !
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Herzliche Einladung zum Studientag:
Die „allgemeine Erwartung besserer künstlerischer Zustände“. Relevanz und Rezeption von Anton Raphael Mengs
Mittwoch, 28.1.2026, 14:00 Uhr
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Dem steilen Aufstieg von Anton Raphael Mengs (1728—1779) zu einem...
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#WomenInArt #IsabellaFarnese #JuanMuñoz #AntonRaphaelMengs
#ArtHistory #Neoclassicism #ContemporaryArt #MuseumLovers #ArtInMadrid
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#AntonRaphaelMengs (1728-79)
Portrait of #MariaAmaliaofSaxony (1724-60), Queen of Spain, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1760
Museo del Prado
#Wettin #Bourbon
#AntonRaphaelMengs
Portrait of Mariana de Silva y Sarmiento, Duquesa de Huescar, (1775) (unfinished)
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Portrait of #MariaCarolinaofAustria (1752-1814), Queen of Naples and Sicily, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1772-3
Palacio Real de Madrid
#Habsburg #Bourbon
#AntonRaphaelMengs (1728-79)
Portrait of #MariaCarolinaofAustria (1752-1814), Queen of Naples and Sicily, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1768
Museo del Prado
#Habsburg #Bourbon
#AntonRaphaelMengs (1728-79)
Portrait of Infant #LuisofSpain (1727-85), Count of Chinchón, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1776
Cleveland Museum of Art
#Bourbon
#AntonRaphaelMengs (1728-79)
Portrait of #MariaAntoniaofBavaria (1724-80), Electress of Saxon , who was #BornOnThisDay
1750s
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
#Wittelsbach #Wettin
#AntonRaphaelMengs (1728-79)
Portrait of #LouisdeSilvestre (1675-1760), who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1745
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
#Mengs #Silvestre
Attributed to #AntonRaphaelMengs (1728-79)
Portrait of #JamesFrancisEdwardStuart (1688-1766), Prince of Wales, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1740s
National Portrait Gallery
#TheOldPretender #Stuart #JamesVIII
#AntonRaphaelMengs (1728–1779)
Portrait of #MariaTheresaofNaplesandSicily (1772-1807), Holy Roman Empress & Empress of Austria, who was #BornOnThisDay
1773
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
#Bourbon #Habsburg
#AntonRaphaelMengs (1728-79)
Portrait of Holy Roman Emperor #LeopoldII (1747-92), who was #BornOnThisDay
1770
Museo del #Prado
#Habsburg
Wonderful Religious Art available here linda-howes.pixels.com/featured/ant...
#Wallart #Angel #AntonRaphaelMengs #Dream #SaintJoseph #StJoseph #ReligiousArt #ReligousPainting #DevineIntervention #Christianity
“The Adoration of the Shepherds.” Anton Raphael Mengs (German; 1728–1779). Oil on oak panel, 1770. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
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#prado
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"The Adoration of the Shepherds.” Anton Raphael Mengs (German; 1728–1779). Oil on oak panel, 1770. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
#antonraphaelmengs
#mengs
#adorationoftheshepherds
#prado
#museonacionaldelprado
@museoprado
“Helios as the Personification of Midday.” Anton Raphael Mengs (German; 1728–1779). Oil on canvas, 1765. Galeria de las Colecciones Reales, Madrid, Spain.
#antonraphaelmengs
#mengs
#helios
@galeriacoleccionesreales
