Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style.

5 days ago · Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a painter and icon of cultural conservatism in 19th-century France. Ingres became the principal proponent of French Neoclassical painting …

With a daring blend of traditional technique and experimental sensuality, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres reimagined Classical and Renaissance sources for 19 th century tastes.

Ingres saw himself as a history painter, the highest goal of academic art. Portraiture he thought of less importance, but he is now most famous for works like 'Madame Moitessier' as well for his …

Apr 4, 2025 · Ingres stands as a defining figure of Neoclassicism in French art history. While Jacques-Louis David’s student, he developed a distinctive approach that emphasized linear …

In the last decade of his career, Ingres received commissions in painting and drawing from both the State and private clients. He became the first painter appointed to the Senate, in 1862, …

In the twentieth century, Ingres's linear forms, with their anatomical and spatial distortions, made him an acclaimed precursor of modernism. Born in Montauban, a small town north of …

In many ways Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres embodied the classical, academic style of painting that the impressionists sought to break away from. He was a key member of the old guard, …

Despite his desire to be seen as a great history painter, traditionally viewed as the most important genre of painting, it is his portraits, both painted and drawn, rather than his history paintings …

Ingres intended The Golden Age and its pendant, The Iron Age — two huge murals measuring 6.60 meters wide by 4.80 meters high — to be his aesthetic manifesto and his final artistic legacy.