http://www.neoclassic.com/angelica-kauffmanns-artistic-triumph.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=angelica-kauffmanns-artistic-triumph Neo Classical Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:26:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.neoclassic.com/angelica-kauffmanns-artistic-triumph.html/comment-page-1#comment-31 Frozen in Time: The story of the ambiguous Anton Raphael Mengs | NeoClassic Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:03:56 +0000 http://www.neoclassic.com/?p=418#comment-31 [...] other early neoclassical artists such as Batoni, another famous portraitist and rival of Mengs and Angelica Kauffmann and therefore contributed to dominance of neoclassical painting over Baroque style. Mengs [...] [...] other early neoclassical artists such as Batoni, another famous portraitist and rival of Mengs and Angelica Kauffmann and therefore contributed to dominance of neoclassical painting over Baroque style. Mengs [...]

]]> http://www.neoclassic.com/angelica-kauffmanns-artistic-triumph.html/comment-page-1#comment-29 The Holy Family: The enigmatic legacy of Pompeo Batoni | NeoClassic Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:13:45 +0000 http://www.neoclassic.com/?p=418#comment-29 [...] However, his main source of income throughout his life became portraits. In this genre, Pompeo Batoni borrowed elements from other forms of painting such as Rococo and tend towards neoclassicism. Stylistically, this made him more than a baroque artist. His use of colors and attention to physical features was unlike other baroque paintings and altarpieces. In many of his portraits and paintings, for example, Batoni adds antique elements to provide a setting and timelessness to his portraits. His focus on physical details in body language and his use of antiquity, abandoning the Baroque style, allowed Batoni to foreshadow what was to become the popular trend of art later with neoclassicism and made him admitted as one of the originators of neoclassical painting among Mengs and Angelica Kauffmann. [...] [...] However, his main source of income throughout his life became portraits. In this genre, Pompeo Batoni borrowed elements from other forms of painting such as Rococo and tend towards neoclassicism. Stylistically, this made him more than a baroque artist. His use of colors and attention to physical features was unlike other baroque paintings and altarpieces. In many of his portraits and paintings, for example, Batoni adds antique elements to provide a setting and timelessness to his portraits. His focus on physical details in body language and his use of antiquity, abandoning the Baroque style, allowed Batoni to foreshadow what was to become the popular trend of art later with neoclassicism and made him admitted as one of the originators of neoclassical painting among Mengs and Angelica Kauffmann. [...]

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