File:Mengs, Jupiter küsst Ganymed.jpg

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Artist
Anton Raphael Mengs  (1728–1779)  wikidata:Q76718 s:it:Autore:Anton Raphael Mengs q:it:Anton Raphael Mengs
 
Anton Raphael Mengs
Description German painter and art historian
Neoclassical
Date of birth/death 22 March 1728 / 12 March 1728 Edit this at Wikidata 29 June 1779 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Ústí nad Labem Rome
Work period 1749-1779
Work location
Rome, Madrid (1761-1769), Dresden
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artist QS:P170,Q76718
Description
English: Jupiter Kissing Ganymede, fresco by Anton Raphael Mengs and Giacomo Casanova in 1758. An imitation of an ancient Roman fresco, it was created to fool archeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, who regarded it as an original.
Deutsch: Jupiter küsst Ganymed, das von Anton Raphael Mengs und Giacomo Casanova um 1760 gemalte Fresko, das dem Archäologen Johann Joachim Winckelmann als antikes Original untergeschoben wurde.
Date vor Nov. 1760
Medium

Gips auf Leinwand, mit künstlichen Brüchen

(Plaster, strengthened with canvas, with artificial breaks)
Dimensions 178.7 x 137 cm.
Rom, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica
Current location
Palazzo Barberini
Accession number
1339
Notes bekannteste Antikenfälschung des 18. Jhs.
Source/Photographer

Steffi Roettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs 1728-1779, vol. 1: Das malerische und zeichnerische Werk (Munich: Hirmer, 1999), plate 7.

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