Angelo Campanella, Anton Raphael Mengs, Ancient mural painting in the Villa Negroni in Rome, copperplate engraving, outline etching, colored, Total: Height: 54.00 cm; Width: 64.50 cm, prints, printed matter, painting, classicism, In 1777 a 2nd century villa was excavated in Rome, whose mural paintings were sensationally well preserved. However, parts of these frescos were sold to England the following year. In the meantime, they are just as lost as the fragments that remained at the site, which were exposed to wind and weather. The Rome based Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779) created the models for the first two engravings of the series. The selected example shows Venus, the Roman goddess of love, in the center, in a bath with playing erotica.
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