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MENGS, Anton Raphael: Glory of St Eusebius

🖼 Glory of St Eusebius, 1757
Fresco
Rome, Italy

Celestial light bathes swirling figures as St. Eusebius ascends among angels, rendered in Mengs's fluid Rococo style with dramatic foreshortening. This ceiling fresco exemplifies mid-18th century German Baroque virtuosity, combining illusionistic space with spiritual transcendence to glorify the saint.

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