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The Slave Market and the Theatre of European Anxiety

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Author Brian Hawkeswood.                                                                                                   Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung https://artelbestudio.blogspot.com/2025/04/orientalist-beautiful-form-of-realism.html When Jean-Léon Gérôme exhibited The Slave Market in 1871, Europe was not an innocent observer of slavery. The Atlantic system had only recently been dismantled in parts of the Western world; Brazil would abolish slavery in 1888. European empires were expanding across Africa and the Middle East. Racial hierarchies were being codified in pseudo-scientific language. Anthropology, colonial administration, and academic painting shared an overlapping visual culture.         ...
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Anton Raphael Mengs in Dresden: Early Enlightenment in Portraiture

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Author - Brian Hawkeswood.                                                        Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung Before he became the painter-philosopher of Europe’s Neoclassical movement, Anton Raphael Mengs found his artistic voice in Dresden , the capital of Saxony and a flourishing center of art, music, and intellectual life in the mid-18th century. Dresden was not only the seat of the Electorate of Saxony, but also home to one of the most impressive art collections of its day—an environment that profoundly shaped Mengs’ early development. Anton Raphael Mengs .  Portrait of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony . In the service of Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland , Mengs created several portraits that already reveal the seeds of his later classical idealism and Enlightenment thinking . They show a move...
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Anton Raphael Mengs: Painter of Reason, Virtue, and the Classical Ideal

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  Author  - Brian Hawkeswood                                                       Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung In the sweep of European art history, few artists are so firmly positioned at the crossroads of style and philosophy as Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779). A German-born painter of Bohemian ancestry who worked primarily in Rome, Dresden , and Madrid, Mengs occupies a pivotal place between the decline of the Rococo and the ascent of Neoclassicism, a style that visually embodied the Enlightenment’s ideals of reason, moral clarity, and intellectual discipline.                                                              Anton Raphael Mengs  "Parnassus.". Mengs wa...
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