Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
French painter, draftsman, printmaker, engraver & violinist
Born in: Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France)
Died in: Paris (Departement de Ville de Paris, Ile-de-France, France)
Also known as:
J.A.D. Ingres, Zhan Ogiust Dominik Engr, Jean-Dominique Ingr
Nationality:
French
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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