El Somni de St. Josep
El Somni de St. Joseph c1773-74 del pintor alemany Anton Raphael Mengs (1728 – 1779); un conegut pintor d'estil rococó que també va formar part del moviment inicial de l'estil de pintura neoclàssic.
A painting of St. Joseph sitting on a chair by a table dreaming, while an Angel appears and guides him in to what must be done.
El Somni de St. Joseph is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available for purchase online as a impressió de tela enrotllada.
Informació a continuació de Wikipedia.org
Mengs was born in 1728 at Ústí nad Labem (German: Aussig) in the Kingdom of Bohemia, the son of Ismael Mengs [da], a Danish painter who eventually established himself at Dresden, where the court of Saxonian-Polish electors and kings was. His older sister, Therese Maron, was also a painter, as was his younger sister, Julia.
His and Therese’s births in Bohemia were mere coincidence. Their mother was not their father’s wife; Ismael carried on a years-long affair with the family’s housekeeper, Charlotte Bormann. In an effort to conceal the births of two illegitimate children, Ismael took Charlotte, under the pretext of “vacations”, to the nearest bigger town abroad, Ústí nad Labem (90 km upstream of the Elbe River).
At least in Anton’s case, Ismael Mengs took his baby and Charlotte back to Dresden a few weeks after the birth. There they lived for the next 13 anys. En 1741 Ismael moved his family from Dresden to Rome.
En 1749 Anton Raphael Mengs was appointed first painter to Frederick Augustus, elector of Saxony, but this did not prevent him from continuing to spend much of his time in Rome. There he married Margarita Guazzi, who had sat for him as a model in 1748. Es va convertir al catolicisme, i dins 1754 esdevingué director de l'escola de pintura del Vaticà.
La seva pintura al fresc Parnassus a Villa Albani li va guanyar la reputació de mestre pintor.
En 1749 Mengs va acceptar una comissió del duc de Northumberland per fer-ne una còpia, a l'oli sobre tela, del fresc de Rafael L’Escola d’Atenes per a la seva casa de Londres. Executat el 1752–55, La pintura de Mengs és de mida completa, però va adaptar la composició a un format rectangular i va afegir altres figures.