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Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres French Neoclassical Painter, 1780-1867
was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres' portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy.
A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis Eug??ne Delacroix. His exemplars, he once explained, were "the great masters which flourished in that century of glorious memory when Raphael set the eternal and incontestable bounds of the sublime in art ... I am thus a conservator of good doctrine, and not an innovator." Nevertheless, modern opinion has tended to regard Ingres and the other Neoclassicists of his era as embodying the Romantic spirit of his time, while his expressive distortions of form and space make him an important precursor of modern art..
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Painting ID:: 49497 The Turkish bath
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1863
108cm in diameter Louvren,Paris
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Painting ID:: 51669 Victoria
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detail of the Apotheosis of Homer
1827
Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 53159 Countess
mk227
oil on canvas
92x73cm
1812
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Painting ID:: 53160 Countess
mk227
120x92cm
1856
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Painting ID:: 53161 Portrait of countess
mk227
146.7x100.3cm
1851
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Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
French Neoclassical Painter, 1780-1867
was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres' portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy.
A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis Eug??ne Delacroix. His exemplars, he once explained, were "the great masters which flourished in that century of glorious memory when Raphael set the eternal and incontestable bounds of the sublime in art ... I am thus a conservator of good doctrine, and not an innovator." Nevertheless, modern opinion has tended to regard Ingres and the other Neoclassicists of his era as embodying the Romantic spirit of his time, while his expressive distortions of form and space make him an important precursor of modern art..
. Related Artists to Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres: | KONINCK, Salomon | Simon Bening | Giuseppe Pelizza | Carl Heinrich Bloch | WEYDEN, Rogier van der |
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