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Gérôme, Jean-Léon
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (b Vesoul, nr. Besançon, 11 May 1824; d Paris, 10 Jan. 1904). French painter and (in his later career) sculptor. He was a pupil of Paul Delaroche and inherited his highly finished academic style, with which he had a career of great public success. Lorenz Eitner writes that ‘In the variety and sensationalism of his subjects… Gérôme…surpassed all his rivals at the Salon—murder in the Roman Senate and carnage in the gladiatorial arena; luscious nudity at the slave auction or the harem bath; Bonaparte contemplating the Sphinx, and Molière breakfasting with Louis XIV—all served equally well for his carefully plotted picture-plays, graced with sex, spiced with gore, and polished into waxwork lifelikeness by a technique that his admirers took for realism’ (An Outline of 19th Century European Painting, 1987). Gérôme had considerable influence as an upholder of academic tradition and enemy of progressive trends in art; he opposed, for example, the acceptance by the state of the Caillebotte bequest of Impressionist pictures.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Gérôme, Jean-Léon." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 9 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Gérôme, Jean-Léon." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 9, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-GrmeJeanLon.html IAN CHILVERS. "Gérôme, Jean-Léon." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Retrieved February 09, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-GrmeJeanLon.html |
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Gérôme, Jean-Léon
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824–1904). French painter and (in his later career) sculptor. He was a pupil of Paul Delaroche and inherited his highly finished academic style, with which he had a career of great public success. Lorenz Eitner writes that ‘In the variety and sensationalism of his subjects… Gérôme…surpassed all his rivals at the Salon—murder in the Roman Senate and carnage in the gladiatorial arena; luscious nudity at the slave auction or the harem bath; Bonaparte contemplating the Sphinx, and Molière breakfasting with Louis XIV—all served equally well for his carefully plotted picture-plays, graced with sex, spiced with gore, and polished into waxwork lifelikeness by a technique that his admirers took for realism’ (An Outline of 19th Century European Painting, 1987). Gérôme had considerable influence as an upholder of academic tradition and enemy of progressive trends in art; he opposed, for example, the acceptance by the state of the Caillebotte bequest of Impressionist pictures.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Gérôme, Jean-Léon." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 9 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Gérôme, Jean-Léon." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 9, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-GrmeJeanLon.html IAN CHILVERS. "Gérôme, Jean-Léon." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Retrieved February 09, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-GrmeJeanLon.html |
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Gérome, Jean-Léon
Gérome, Jean-Léon. See IMPRESSIONISM.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Gérome, Jean-Léon." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 9 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Gérome, Jean-Léon." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (February 9, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-GromeJeanLon.html IAN CHILVERS. "Gérome, Jean-Léon." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Retrieved February 09, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-GromeJeanLon.html |
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