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Amédée-David De Pastoret
Amédée, marquis de Pastoret (2 January 1791 – 18 May 1857) was a French writer and politician. Born in Paris, he was the son of marquis Emmanuel de Pastoret, parliamentarian and minister. He was sent to Rome in 1809 secretary general to the minister of the interior of the provisional government. He became a legitimist and refused to swear loyalty to Louis-Philippe of France in 1830. He rallied to Napoleon III, Louis-Napoléon and was made a senator of the Second French Empire on 31 December 1852. He was a patron of Ingres, commissioning several of his works such as ''The Dauphin's Entry Into Paris''. He died in Paris. Works * ''Les Troubadours'', poem (1813) * ''Des moyens mis en usage par Henri IV pour s'assurer la couronne'' (1815 and 1819) * ''Les Normands en Italie ou Salerne délivrée'', poem (1818) * ''Sur Monseigneur le duc de Berry'' (1820) * ''Le duc de Guise à Naples'', novel (1825) * ''Récits historiques'' (1826) *''Le Duc de Guise à Naples, ou Mémoires ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingres - Amédée-David, The Comte De Pastoret - AIC
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassicism, Neoclassical Painting, painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romanticism (art), Romantic style. Although he considered himself a History painting, painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, it is his portraits, both painted and drawn, that are recognized as his greatest legacy. His expressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art, influencing Picasso, Matisse and other modernists. Born into a modest family in Montauban, he travelled to Paris to study in the studio of Jacques-Louis David, David. In 1802 he made his Paris Salon, Salon debut, and won the Prix de Rome for his painting ''The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles''. By the time he departed in 1806 for his residency in Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
