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MENGS, Anton Raphael: The Holy Family with the Infant St John the Baptist

🖼 The Holy Family with the Infant St John the Baptist, 1763
Oil on canvas
200 × 136 cm

Soft brushwork renders the Virgin and Child in tender intimacy, bathed in warm light alongside the infant John the Baptist. Mengs revives Raphael's compositional grace and spiritual warmth, establishing himself as Europe's leading Rococo classicist of the mid-eighteenth century.

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E. H. Gombrich
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