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332: 369: 317: 291: 352: 416: 36: 158:. His career was erratic, partly because of his difficult personality, and the majority of his large projects were left incomplete, or subsequently destroyed. Much of what survives is in the form of drawings, many using "a schematic, pale colouring as a timid and humble accessory to the dominating figure-drawing", that were planned for large 133: 331: 186:, where he studied at the academy and supported himself for seven years by drawing portraits in red chalk, producing during the time a large historical picture, the "Death of Æschylus", and another painting, "Æolus and Ulysses". In 1783 he went to 217:, where his "Fall of the Angels", a colossal picture containing over 200 figures, gained him a professorship in the academy of fine arts. Two years' labour in Berlin and a travelling pension enabled him in 1792 to go to 368: 316: 236:
He gradually produced some fine subject and historical paintings, e.g. "Plato's Symposium" and the "Battle of Rossbach" which made him famous. He was appointed professor at
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academy and was dismissed; he was based in Rome for the brief remainder of his life, where he developed his final style.
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both studied and worked with him in Rome, and copied many of his works; Koch made
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A biography was published in 1806 by his friend, the critic and archaeologist
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has several works by all three artists based on Carstens' designs.
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of several, which were published in Rome in 1799. The
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