Curated category
Members of the Académie des beaux-arts
- Orson WellesOrson Welles was born on the 6th of May 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and died on the 10th of October 1985. In between those dates, he directed what is…
- Roman PolanskiRoman Polanski was born on the 18th of August 1933 in interbellum Paris, the child of two agnostics from very different worlds.
- Eugène DelacroixEugène Delacroix once heard the poet and critic Baudelaire describe him this way: "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to…
- Gustave MoreauGustave Moreau left instructions that his death on the 18th of April 1898 was not to be announced in the press. His funeral was to be small and simple.
- Jacques-Louis DavidJacques-Louis David was born in Paris on the 30th of August 1748, into a world of powdered wigs, gilded ceilings, and a painting style built on prettiness.
- Antoine-Jean GrosAntoine-Jean Gros was born in Paris on the 16th of March 1771, the son of two painters, in a city on the edge of revolution.
- Horace VernetHorace Vernet was born on the 30th of June 1789 inside the Paris Louvre itself, while his parents sheltered there during the French Revolution.
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres died at eighty-six on the 14th of January 1867, in his apartment on the Quai Voltaire in Paris, and his studio held more than…
- Jean-Léon GérômeJean-Léon Gérôme was born on the 11th of May 1824 in Vesoul, a small town in the Haute-Saône region of France, and by 1880 he had become arguably the most…
- François GérardFrançois Pascal Simon Gérard was known across Europe by a single phrase: the painter of kings, the king of painters. Born in Rome on the 4th of May 1770, the…
- Louis ViscontiLouis Tullius Joachim Visconti was born in Rome on the 11th of February 1791, into a family so entwined with antiquity that the past was practically the…
- Paul DelarochePaul Delaroche painted a man being led to his death while an archbishop stretched his arms from a prison window to bless him.