Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Painting, Visual Artist
1780 – 1867
Who was Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres?
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy.
A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis Eugène Delacroix. His exemplars, he once explained, were "the great masters which flourished in that century of glorious memory when Raphael set the eternal and incontestable bounds of the sublime in art ... I am thus a conservator of good doctrine, and not an innovator." Nevertheless, modern opinion has tended to regard Ingres and the other Neoclassicists of his era as embodying the Romantic spirit of his time, while his expressive distortions of form and space make him an important precursor of modern art.
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- Born
- Aug 29, 1780
Montauban - Also known as
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, follower of
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
- Lived in
- Montauban
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Died
- Jan 14, 1867
Paris - Resting place
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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