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Gustave Moreau (French: [ɡystav mɔʁo]; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence". [1]: 110 p.
The Apparition, Gustave Moreau, 1876. watercolor. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The Apparition (French: L'Apparition) is a painting by French artist Gustave Moreau, painted between 1874 and 1876. It shows the biblical character of Salome dancing in front of Herod Antipas with a vision of John the Baptist's severed head.
Musée National Gustave-Moreau (Moreau Museum), Paris Jupiter et Sémélé (1894–95; English , Jupiter and Semele ) is a painting by the French Symbolist artist Gustave Moreau (1826–1898). It depicts a moment from the classical myth [ 1 ] of the mortal woman Semele , mother of the god Dionysus , and her lover, Jupiter , the king of the gods.
Jupiter and Semele (1894–1895), by Gustave Moreau, Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris. Symbolist painting was one of the main artistic manifestations of symbolism, a cultural movement that emerged at the end of the 19th century in France and developed in several European countries.
Les Chimères or The Chimaeras is an unfinished painting executed in 1884 by the French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau (1826–1898). It depicts a large forest scene wherein various nude women are associated with sundry figures from classical and medieval mythology—not only the titular chimeras, but also centaurs, winged creatures, fawns, minotaurs, etc.
Salome Dancing before Herod (French: Salomé dansant devant Hérode) is an oil painting produced in 1876 by the French Symbolist artist Gustave Moreau. The subject matter is taken from the New Testament, depicting Salome—the daughter of Herod II and Herodias—dancing before Herod Antipas. The work took Moreau seven years to paint. [1]
Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute ... Gustave Moreau, Gustav ...
The Mystic Flower is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, created c. 1890. A religious work, it was inspired by Carpaccio's Apotheosis of Saint Ursula, which Moreau was able to copy during his stay in Venice.