Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Portrait of the Italian Composer Cherubini and the Muse of Lyrical Poetry, 1842

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 ...more

Ingres' portrait drawings rank among the art's supreme achievements, exhibiting the artist's brilliant draftsmanship and rare ability to capture character and personal style. This splendid volume presents Ingres portraits of many affluent and distinguished men and women of his age, among them the celebrated French composer Charles Gounod. Sources include ...more

The volumes in this bibliophile series provide unique portraits of European art history. Readers gain fascinating insights into the artists' biographies and their styles: Durer and his famous portraits and altarpieces, the vivid farm scenes of Pieter Bruegel, the great painters of the Italian Renaissance, the symphonies in color of ...more

This provocative book-the first full-length feminist and sociohistorical study of Ingres`s art-explores the meanings behind the fluid, distorted, and sensualized bodies that populate his work. Ockman identifies a disturbing equation between the female body and deformity in neoclassical and modernist aesthetics. She extends historical analysis to contemporary debates about representations ...more

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres dominated French painting for much of the nineteenth century, from his emergence as the leading student of Jacques-Louis David and winner in 1801 of the prestigious Rome Prize, to his death in 1867. A champion of classicism and a devotee of Raphael and Poussin, Ingres's conviction that color ...more

Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions. ...more