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Anton Raphael Mengs

1728 - 1779

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Anton Raphael Mengs (12 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German Neoclassical painter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anton Raphael Mengs has received more than 284,212 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Anton Raphael Mengs is the 181st most popular painter (up from 199th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 60th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Painter.

Anton Raphael Mengs was a German painter and art teacher. He is most famous for his series of frescoes in the Villa Albani in Rome.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Anton Raphael Mengs ranks 181 out of 2,023. Before him are Hugo van der Goes, Pinturicchio, Niki de Saint Phalle, Ivan Shishkin, Bernardo Bellotto, and Fra Bartolomeo. After him are Han van Meegeren, Anselm Kiefer, Johannes Itten, Benozzo Gozzoli, Jan Matejko, and Maurice de Vlaminck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Anton Raphael Mengs ranks 5. Before him are James Cook, Peter III of Russia, Johann Heinrich Lambert, and Joseph Black. After him are Niccolò Piccinni, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Chevalier d'Éon, Ali Bey al-Kabir, Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, and Antoine Baumé. Among people deceased in 1779, Anton Raphael Mengs ranks 3. Before him are James Cook, and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. After him are Emperor Go-Momozono, Karim Khan Zand, Thomas Chippendale, Casimir Pulaski, John Kay, David Garrick, Tommaso Traetta, Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf, and William Boyce.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Anton Raphael Mengs ranks 58 out of 1,200. Before him are Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271), Karel Gott (1939), Emil Hácha (1872), Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), and Peter Grünberg (1939). After him are Karl Renner (1870), George of Poděbrady (1420), Ludmila of Bohemia (860), Franz Werfel (1890), Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787), and Jan Masaryk (1886).

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Among PAINTERS In Czechia

Among painters born in Czechia, Anton Raphael Mengs ranks 2. Before him are Alphonse Mucha (1860). After him are František Kupka (1871), Wenceslaus Hollar (1607), Emil Orlík (1870), Karel Škréta (1610), Toyen (1902), Petr Brandl (1668), Anna Chromý (1940), Gabriel von Max (1840), Zdeněk Burian (1905), and Georg Flegel (1566).

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