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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (/ ˈ æ ŋ ɡ r ə / ANG-grə; French: [ʒɑ̃ oɡyst dɔminik ɛ̃ɡʁ]; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter.Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style.
Self-Portrait at Seventy-Eight, 1858, 62 x 51 cm.. This is an incomplete list of paintings by the French neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867). ). Although he considered himself a classicist in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David and had a longstanding rivalry with Eugène Delacroix, some of his later works included elements of romanticism and orien
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The Apotheosis of Homer is a grand 1827 painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, now exhibited at the Louvre as INV 5417. The symmetrical composition depicts Homer being crowned by a winged figure personifying Victory or the Universe.
The pose of the nude may be compared with that of another by Ingres, the Venus Anadyomene (1848), [6] and is a reimagination of the Aphrodite of Cnidus or Venus Pudica. [5] Two of Ingres' students, painters Paul Balze and Alexandre Desgoffe, helped to create the background and water jar. [1]
The work was intended as a demonstration of Ingres' mastery of the human figure in classical history painting – Odysseus is shown in a red cloak derived from a sculpture by Pseudo-Phidias. The painting is in the neo-classical style and belongs to the school of Jacques-Louis David , in whose studio Ingres had trained.
Ingres had made several drawings after David's painting, the earliest dating to 1807. [2] Another source may have been music and opera, since a lyre is shown in the foreground. The Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse produced Étienne-Nicolas Méhul's opera Stratonice several times whilst Ingres was a violinist with them. The painting shows the ...
Jupiter and Thetis is an 1811 painting by the French neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, in the Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France.Painted when the artist was not yet 31, the work severely and pointedly contrasts the grandeur and might of a cloud-borne Olympian male deity against that of a diminutive and half nude nymph.