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    The document discusses the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii in 79 CE and the excavations that began in 1748. It then covers the Apollo Belvedere statue and comparisons between Raphael's 1510 fresco of Parnassus and Anton Raphael Mengs's 1761 fresco of the same subject in the Villa Albani in Rome.

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    Apollo Belvedere vs Mengs’s Parnassus (1761, Villa Albani)

    Pompeii, Italy

    Pompeii
    Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E.

    Excavation began in 1748

    Plaster body cast of victim killed by


    toxic fumes during the eruption of
    detail, Villa of the Mysteries, 1st c. C.E., Mount Vesuvius, 79 C.E.
    Pompeii, Italy
    Pompeii, Italy
    Winckelmann Art Historial Periods
    older style Archaic
    high/sublime Classical
    beautiful Late Classical
    imitators Hellenistic

    Roman copy after bronze by Roman copy after an original


    Kouros, c. 610-600 Polykleitos, Doryphoros Roman copy of a 1st or 2nd c. BCE Greek
    bronze by Lysippos, The Man
    BCE, marble, (Spear Bearer), 450-440 BCE, original, The Laocoön Group, c. 1st c. CE,
    Scraping Himself, c. 350-325
    originally painted, marble Classical marble Hellenistic
    B.C.E., marble, 6’9” Late Classical
    76” Archaic
    Roman Copy (c. 130-10 C.E.) after a Greek Original by Leonchares (c. 330 B.C.E.), Apollo Belvedere, marble
    with traces of pigment, 2.24 m (Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican City, Collection of Pope Julius II)
    Belvedere: Italian for beautiful view.
    Raphael, Parnassus, 1510-11, fresco, Vatican, Stanza della Segnatura , 670 cm
    Raphael, Parnassus, 1510-11, fresco Raphael, Disputa, 1509, fresco

    Pope Julius II hired Raphael to paint three


    lunettes about the liberal arts, philosophy and
    science, and religion for his Stanza della Segnatura
    (Room of the Signatures where the Pope signed bulls
    or documents and had a library) in the Vatican,
    Rome.

    ←Raphael, School of Athens, 1509, fresco


    Anton Raphael Mengs, Parnassus, Villa Albani, Rome, 1761, fresco
    on the ceiling
    Raphael, Parnassus, 1510-11, Vatican, Stanza della Segnatura ,
    670 cm

    Mount Parnassus, located in central Greece, was believed was sacred to Apollo (god of poetry, music, and arts)
    and the nine muses.
    Anton Raphael Mengs, Parnassus, Villa Albani, Rome, 1761, fresco

    Roman Copy (c. 130-10 C.E.) after a Greek Original by


    Leonchares (c. 330 B.C.E.), Apollo Belvedere, marble with traces
    of pigment, 2.24 m (Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican City)
    lyre & laurel branch (symbols of artistic accomplishment

    Mnemosyne: mother of the muses ↓

    23.1 Anton Raphael Mengs, Parnassus, Villa Albani, Rome, 1761, fresco
    “noble simplicity & calm grandeur”

    The muses hold their attributes (various arts) and the models for them were friends of the cardinal.

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