Archive for posts tagged with ‘Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’


Dec 22 2010

Romulus, Conqueror of Acron, 1812, Jean Auguste Dominque Ingres

Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

Romulus, Conqueror of Acron, 1812, Jean Auguste Dominque Ingres

This is a reproduction of Jean Ingres’ “Romulus, Conqueror of Acron” of 1812. Ingres was born in Montauban in 1780 and at the age of sixteen he went to Paris to study under David. He won the Grand Prix in 1801. He went to Rome in 1807 having secured a following in the art world. He continued to mature and gather a greater gathering until his death in 1867. Romulus, Conqueror of Acron, was created as a large painting for the salon of Napoleon I. It recalls the earliest and mythological history of Rome and reflects the Napoleonic obsession with all things Roman and Classical. The original painting is in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

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Jul 25 2010

Zeus et Thetis, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1811

French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

Zeus et Thetis, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1811

This powerful images by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres by painted in 1811 in France. It depicts poignent moment from Book One of the Iliad when Thetis beseaches Zeus on behalf of her son Achilles.

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