Often assumed to be the bastion of conservatism in French art, Ingres was actually an astute observer of his own time and was, therefore, thoroughly modern. Like Gros and Girodet, Ingres had to find his own way past both David and Neo-Classicism and into the new movement, Romanticism. This part of a two part podcast deals with the early career of an artist so original and so reviled he spend nearly two decades in Rome, only to return triumphantly to Paris as the champion of all things Academic.
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Tags: academic art, Jean-August Dominique Ingres, Napoléon, Napoleonic Art, Neo-Classicism, Orientalism in Art, Romanticism