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Jean-Léon Gérôme (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ leɔ̃ ʒeʁom]; 11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880."
Caricature of Gerome by Henri Oulevay, commenting on the controversy roused by The Execution of Marshal Ney. Édouard Manet, The Execution of Maximilian, 1868, Kunsthalle Mannheim. Gérôme's The Death of Caesar, 1867, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The painting was presented at the 1868 Paris Salon. Although Ney's execution was over fifty ...
Starting in the mid-1890s, during the final decade of his life, Gérôme made at least four paintings personifying Truth as a nude woman, either thrown into, at the bottom of, or emerging from a well. The imagery arises from a translation of an aphorism of the philosopher Democritus, "Of truth we know nothing, for truth is in a well". [1]
Similar to works like Diogenes [4] and Prayer in the Desert, [5] the curves are all extremely natural and give a more life-like feel. The composition of the work features vertical and horizontal lines that create the interior and make the viewer feel like an observer in the mosque as well.
The painting almost immediately kicked off a controversy over the accuracy of Gerome's use of the thumbs-down gesture by spectators in the Colosseum. A 26-page pamphlet published in 1879, "Pollice Verso": To the Lovers of Truth in Classic Art, This is Most Respectfully Addressed , reprinted evidence for and against the accuracy of the painting ...
The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer (French: La Dernière Prière des martyrs chrétiens), also known as The Christian Martyrs and The Last Prayer, is an 1883 painting by the French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. [1]
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) was a nineteenth century French painter and sculptor. [1] At the age of twenty-three, he came to the attention of the art world at the Salon of 1847 with The Cock Fight (1846), a Neo-Grec painting that was praised by Théophile Gautier. [2]
Jerusalem (French: Jérusalem) is an 1867 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It is also known as Golgotha, Consumatum Est and The Crucifixion ( La Crucifixion ). The foreground depicts the ground of Golgotha with the shadows of three crucified men: Jesus and the two thieves.