Euclid's Head, Domenico Cunego, 1782, Graphic Art, Copper Engraving, Euclid (c. 300 BC) was one of the greatest mathematicians in history. In this print he is seen leaning over forward, but in fact this head is only a detail. Domenico Cunego has based his etching on a similar drawing by Raphael Mengs. Mengs’s father had great artistic ambitions for his son. And so from 1741 to 1744 he shut the boy in the Vatican from morning to evening so that he should practise and draw after the works of Raphael (1483-1520) and others. It is to be hoped that Mengs derived some benefit from his efforts

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