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The Importance of Writers-Die Bedeutung von Schriftstellern.

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  Author -Brian Hawkeswood.                                                                               Scroll Down For English Version. Die Beziehung zwischen bildender Kunst und den Schriftstellern, die sie interpretieren—Kunsthistoriker, Kritiker, Philosophen und Kulturkommentatoren—ist zutiefst symbiotisch. Während die Schaffung eines Gemäldes, einer Skulptur oder eines architektonischen Werks ein Akt visueller Kreativität ist, hängt die Rezeption, Interpretation und der dauerhafte Ruhm dieser Werke oft von der sprachlichen Vermittlung ab. Worte beschreiben Kunst nicht nur; sie kontextualisieren, theoretisieren und kanonisieren sie mitunter sogar. Historisch hat die Verbreitung von bildender Kunst durch schriftliche Texte deren Rezeption und Status entscheidend beeinflusst. Giorgio Va...
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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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