Персей и Андромеда

18th century · Painting · 214 × 146 cm

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Where is “Персей и Андромеда” now? Collection: Scientific-research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, Saint Petersburg. Unknown.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia
Image: Scientific-research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts — © Музей Российской академии художеств · Госкаталог музейного фонда РФ

22 March 1728
Born
1745–1746
Court painter to the Saxon electors at seventeen
Back in Saxony, the seventeen-year-old Mengs was appointed court painter (Kabinettmaler) to the Saxon electors in Dresden.
1746–1749
A second stay in Rome: conversion and marriage
Arriving in Rome for the second time, Mengs converted to Catholicism and married the Roman Margarita Guazzi, who had sat for him as a model in 1748.
1749–1751
First painter to the Elector of Saxony
Mengs became chief court painter to the Elector Frederick Augustus II on an annual salary of 1,000 thalers, which did not prevent him from spending much of his time in Rome.
late 1755
Meeting Johann Joachim Winckelmann
At the end of 1755 Mengs met the archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, who soon became one of his closest friends and opened his eyes to a new understanding of ancient art. Winckelmann strongly shaped Mengs's views on painting: in his work Mengs turned from the fashionable Rococo to early Neoclassicism.
29 June 1779
Died