Style and truth in the neoclassical art theory and criticism of Anton Raphael Mengs and Johann Winckelmann

Anton Raphael Mengs has long enjoyed a greater reputation as an educator and art theorist than as a painter. Mengs' advice to young artists on the masters and precepts of the classical-minded Roman School of painting was substantially enriched by his early collaboration with Johann Winckelmann in Rome during the middle 1750s. The early Roman writings of Mengs and Winckelmann reveal a systematic effort on the part of the two friends to collect physical evidence for a superior style of art that prevailed during the cultural and political height of ancient Greek civilization. Mengs and Winckelmann made qualitative distinctions between archaic and classical Greek art and reconstructed the latter around the concept of ideal beauty, which was not previously identified with a style that actually existed.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Art History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Duffy, Michael Hollowell

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ziff, J.

• Fine Arts
• Art History

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1991 Duffy, Michael Hollowell

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9136584
(UMI)AAI9136584

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22829