INGRES

This new monograph explores the career of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), one of the most important artists of the ninete enth-century Neoclassical period. The lifetime of the painter spans one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of the artist' s native France. Born less than nine years before the storming of the Bastille, the painter would eventually bear witness to three r evolutions and the rise and fall (and eventual resurrection) of a rapid succession of monarchical, republican, and imperial regimes. Like ma...[Read more]