Angelo Campanella; Anton Raphael Mengs; Ancient mural painting in the Villa Negroni in Rome; copperplate engraving; outline etching; colored; Total: Height: 54.00 cm; Width: 64.50 cm; prints; printed matter; painting; classicism; In 1777 a 2nd century villa was excavated in Rome; whose mural paintings were sensationally well preserved. However; parts of these frescos were sold to England the following year. In the meantime; they are just as lost as the fragments that remained at the site; which were exposed to wind and weather. The Rome based Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779) created the models for the first two engravings of the series. The selected example shows Venus; the Roman goddess of love; in the center; in a bath with playing erotica.