Candidates for first the Neoclassical painting
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Candidates for first Neoclassical painting include the Parnassus (1761) ceiling fresco by German painter Raphael Mengs and The Oath of the Horatii (1785) by French artist Jacques Louis David.
Parnassus by Mengs
Parnassus (1761) in the Villa Albani (now Villa Torlonia), Rome by Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-79) is a famous ceiling painting. It is an example of the Neoclassical reaction against Baroque illusionism, and is generally regarded as the first neoclassical painting.
The Italian art collector Alessandro Albani (1692 -1779), the German scholar Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717 - 1768) and the German painter Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-79) collaborated to produce the first Neoclassical painting, the ceiling fresco Parnassus at the Villa Albani.
The Oath of the Horatii by David
Oath of the Horatii (French: Le Serment des Horaces), is a painting by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) accomplished in 1784, before the French Revolution, which depicts the Roman salute. It grew to be considered as paradigm of neoclassical painting. The painting increased David's fame, and allowed him to rear his own students.
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