Five figures, including an old man with a crook and two angels are in the foreground in front of an arch engraved 'Museum Clementinum' in his Allegory of History.
Casanova's memoirs claim that this artist believed the Tower of Babel still existed, and that he 'spoke four languages, all badly,' but praise this artist's Penitent Magdalene. Five figures, including an old man with a crook and two angels are in the foreground in front of an arch engraved 'Museum Clementinum' in his Allegory of History. Charles III commissioned him to paint the ceiling of the Banqueting Hall of the Madrid Palace, the location of his Apotheosis of Trajan. Along with his rival Pompeo Batoni, he's known for portraits with the sitter posing among ancient ruins, but he's best known for a work in the Villa Albani in Rome showing Apollo, Mnemosyne and the Muses. - that painting is his Parnassus. FTP, name this eighteenth-century German painter who was a leading figure of early Neoclassicism.
Casanova's memoirs claim that this artist believed the Tower of Babel still existed, and that he 'spoke four languages, all badly,' but praise this artist's Penitent Magdalene.
Anton Raphael {Mengs}