Francesco Brunery (1849–1926), also known as François Brunery and as François Bruneri, was an Italian

academic An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

painter. He was born in

Turin, Italy Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. T ...

and studied with

Jean-Léon Gérôme Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ran ...

and

Léon Bonnat Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Early life Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in M ...

. Brunery received an honorable mention at the

Paris Salon The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

of 1903. He is associated with

anti-clerical art Anti-clerical art is a genre of art portraying clergy, especially Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic clergy, in unflattering contexts. It was especially popular in France during the second half of the 19th century, at a time that the anti-cler ...

References

* Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker, ''Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Leipzig, Veb E.A. Seemann Verlag, 1980–1986. 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Anti-clerical art 1849 births 1926 deaths 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub