Mengs at the Palacio Real, Madrid

• Autores: José Luis Sancho
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 139, Nº 1133, 1997, págs. 515-528
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The broad outlines of Mengs's activities as court painter to Charles III of Spain are well known.' Summoned to Madrid in 1761, when he was at the zenith of his immense European fame, he remained - despite absences in Italy - in the Spanish royal service, producing portraits, history-paintings and frescoes as well as training a whole school of Neo-classical artists, up to his early death at Rome in 1779. Not the least important of his undertakings in Madrid was the decoration in fresco of a series of ceilings in the state rooms of the Palacio Real, which also came to house a considerable quantity of his oil-paintings. A hitherto unnoticed bozzetto and a sub- stantial unstudied manuscript now shed fresh light on his activities in the palace, on the way in which his works were regarded at court, and on several of his more important paintings.