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MENGS, Anton Raphael: Perseus and Andromeda

🖼 Perseus and Andromeda, 1774-79
Oil on canvas
227 × 154 cm
St. Petersburg, Russia

Dramatic rescue unfolds as Perseus swoops down to free Andromeda from her rocky chains, rendered in luminous Rococo color and dynamic diagonal composition. Mengs synthesizes Baroque grandeur with Enlightenment elegance, making mythological heroism accessible to eighteenth-century aristocratic taste.

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E. H. Gombrich
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