Comment on Norse Mythology in Thorvaldsen's Art - a Virtually Omitted Motive

Namely, the German painter Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779), who became one of the leading artists in the early years of Neoclassicism. Baden here refers to Mengs’ Gedanken über die Schönheit und den guten Geschmack in der Mahlerey, Orell 1774.

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