Incorporating elements of famous artists from the past into one’s own works was something that this Neoclassical artist mastered. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was a French artist who was born around the time that the Necoalssical era started and he refused to embrace the emerging Romantic era. He was profoundly influenced by the paintings of other …
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres paintings
One of Europe’s most contentious figures of the late 18th and early 19th centuries was a popular subject among the most renowned French artists at the time. This is remarkable because Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) didn’t have a lot of time to sit for them considering he was too busy raging war all across the continent. …