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PAUL DELAROCHE
Delaroche came out of the tradition of late eighteenth-century French history painting, represented by artists such as François-André Vincent (1746-1817) who focused on episodes from French history. Ever since Louis XVI’s Directeur des Bâtiments, D’Angiviller conceived of the Grands hommes (Great Men) series both in painting and sculpture, the trend was set for accurate, realistic depictions of subjects from Medieval, Renaissance, and modern history, frequen (showing 500 of 9021 characters). |