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TitleParnassus

Creator nameMengs, Anton Raphael

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1760–1761

Object typePainting

MaterialsFresco (ceiling painting)

Dimensions300 × 600 cm

LocationMuseo di Villa Albani, Rome

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsNeoclassicism (Art)Mythology, Greek, in artMural painting and decoration, German

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II. The Exemplum Virtutis

Robert Rosenblum

Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art

~THE UNCOMMON heroism of a Hector or a Germanicus, the noble tears of an Andromache or an Agrippina—such high moments from...

Author

Robert Rosenblum

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.50-106

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00288.2

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Chapter subject tags:Neoclassicism (Art)Painting, French--18th centuryGreuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805West, Benjamin, 1738-1820Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Gros, Antoine-Jean, baron, 1771-1835Painting, British--18th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryDelacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825

5. Kauffman’s Helicon

Angela Rosenthal

Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility

IN 1779 Richard Samuel exhibited his painting The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain (fig. 76) at the Royal Academy in London...

Author

Angela Rosenthal

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.155-187

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00255.006

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Chapter subject tags:Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807Portrait painting, Swiss--18th centuryWomen artists--Switzerland--18th centuryArt patronage--Great Britain--18th centuryPainting, British--18th centuryNeoclassical (Art)

4. The Eighteenth Century: The Politics of Art

Marcia B. Hall

The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting

~~The eighteenth century sees the definitive politicization of art, which would ultimately come to play a role in the wrenching events of the French Revolution. Louis XIV’s takeover of the art establishment in the service of the state, beginning around 1660, laid the foundation for what followed. Crucial to Louis’s...

Author

Marcia B. Hall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.145-185

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00228.005

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Chapter subject tags:Painting--TechniqueArt--Political aspectsNeoclassicism (Art)--FrancePainting, French--18th centuryPainting, Rococo

Chapter 2: Classicism and Expression

William Vaughan

German Romantic Painting

~ONE OF THE MOST familiar objections of the Romantics to classicism was that it lacked relevance. ‘We are no longer Greeks,’ complained Runge to his brother in 1802, ‘and when we contemplate their perfect works of art we can no longer feel the totality in the way that they...

Author

William Vaughan

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.25-38

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00058.006

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Chapter subject tags:Romanticism--GermanyPainting, German--19th centuryNeoclassicism (Art)Carstens, Asmus Jakob, 1754-1798

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