
1777
Returns to Rome because of ill health
Because of illness — he tolerated the cold Madrid winters badly — Mengs returned to Rome in 1777.
June 1779
Death in Rome in poverty: twenty children
Two years after his return from Spain Mengs died in Rome in poor circumstances, leaving twenty children; he was buried in the church of Santi Michele e Magno.
29. juni 1779
Died
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