Karin h grimme jean-auguste-dominique ingres biography

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: Taschen Basic Art

Grimme, Karin

Softcover.

Condition: Good. The classical idealist French Neoclassical painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was one of the 19th century`s major portrait and historical painters. First trained in drawing by Europe`s most famous classicist painter Jacques-Louis David, Ingres went to Rome in his twenties, where he immersed himself in Greco-Roman art and the works of Raphael, Holbein, and Titian, and, while in Florence in 1819, was greatly influenced by Masaccio.

Karin h grimme jean-auguste-dominique ingres biography

He returned to Paris in 1824 and started his triumphant career. In 1825 he was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor by King Charles X and was elected a member of the Academy. Though reno