Ingres Jean Auguste

This mythological picture completes a number of mandatory for the students of the French Academy in Rome “parcels” of Ingres to Paris. In Italy, a young painter immersed himself in

The plot of the picture is drawn from the poem by L. Ariosto “Frenzied Roland”. It describes the story of Angelica, chained to the rock and sacrificed to a sea

The painting was painted at the end of the artist’s life. This is the most captivating work of the old master. It depicts a young girl holding a jug from

Classicists reasonably claimed that the drawing “teaches” the hand of line accuracy. In the system of these representations, Ingres was raised, and yet in college students he showed himself as

This large painting, ordered for the Roman Church of the Holy Trinity as early as 1817, Ingres finished, only in the summer of 1820. The painting depicts the scene of

The first version of this historical painting, in which the great ancient Roman poet reads his immortal poem to the family of Emperor Augustus, was written seven years earlier and

The seventeen-year-old Jeanne d’Arc with a classic graceful beauty with an artificial face in an “unassailable” pose is depicted in a canvas with a name that duplicates the historical fact

“Portrait of Louise D” Ossonville “is underlined, modest – this beautiful and educated lady did not need an idealization, and yet, when the canvas was ready, someone said to the

Cloth XIX century “Romulus – the winner of Akron” belongs to the work of the Frenchman Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. It refers to the early period of the creativity of

Ingres, according to Charles Baudelaire, was “the only person in France who can really write portraits.” Funny, but the artist himself considered them a kind of annoying “load”, distracting him

Portrait of Raphael Santi and Fornarina, the beloved of the eminent artist – a piece of Santi’s biography, obsessed with feelings for the same Fornarina, which later broke his heart,

A young, beautiful and happy woman, full of dignity and independence, looks at us truthfully and simply. The proud posture seems surprisingly natural, devoid of any coquetry. And only half-opened

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – one of the largest portraitists of the XIX century. However, the artist himself did not consider the portrait the main genre in his work. He

One of the most famous paintings of the artist. The figure of a girl in a white dress, like a statue, rises in the background of the landscape. Ingres strove

This picture – one of the “premises”, which Ingres, as a student of the French Academy in Rome, sent to the Paris Academy. Its other name is “The Big Bather”.

This is a portrait of the friend of the artist François Granet, also an artist. Ingres places it on the background of the Roman landscape, half-turned, calmly looking at the

Antiochus, the son of Seleucus, the founder of the dynasty, who ruled the Asian provinces after the death of Alexander the Great, fell in love, as legend says, to his

Ingres wrote “The Great Odalisque” in Rome for Napoleon’s sister Carolina Murat. The painting was exhibited in Paris in the Salon in 1819. Following the example of Renaissance artists, Ingres

Before us is Madame Rivier, whose portrait, together with her daughter, was ordered by her husband. Of particular importance is his chosen oval composition, inscribed in a rectangle. This oval

Louis Francois Bertin published the popular newspaper “Deba”. Visitors to the Salon of 1833, who saw the portrait of Bertin exhibited there, were shocked by his realism. It was said

Leonardo Da Vinci was a living legend, whose presence could adorn any royal court. French King Francis I, who was a great lover of Italian art, invited the artist to