Ingres: portrait of a meticulous master.(The Home Forum)

The Christian Science Monitor | December 13, 1999 | Copyright

The impeccable works of the French 19th-century artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) reward a detailed, scrupulous consideration.

They ask us to look at them in a way that measures up somewhat to Ingres's own conviction that art with "a great formal purity" (like his) demands "slow and searching study."

It was this concept that led to Ingres and the High Renaissance artist he emulated, Raphael, being seen as the archetypes of academic art. Of art, that is, that is learned as a discipline rather than, in Romantic vein, the expression of untrained ...

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