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Joseph-Noël Sylvestre (1847–1926) was a French artist, notable for his studies of classic scenes from antiquity.
(Exhibition catalogue, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Béziers, October 2005)
File:Sylvestre La Mort de Seneque 1875.jpg, ''The Death of
Joseph-Noël Sylvestre (1847–1926) was a French artist, notable for his studies of classic scenes from antiquity.(Exhibition catalogue, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Béziers, October 2005)
Life
Joseph-Noël Sylvestre was born on 24 June 1847 in Béziers in South-West France. He began his training as an artist first inToulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Pa ...
under Thomas Couture
Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher. He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge,Wilkinson, Burke. ''The Life and Works of A ...
, then at the École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts (; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centur ...
in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel
Alexandre Cabanel (; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. According to ''Diccionario Enciclopedi ...
. He was an exponent of the romantic Academic art
Academic art, or academicism or academism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie ...
style, also known as ''art pompier'' (fireman's art), examples of which are the ''Death of Seneca'' (1875), ''The Gaul Ducar decapitates the Roman general Flaminius at the Battle of Trasimene'' (1882), ''The Sack of Rome by the barbarians in 410'' (1890) and ''François Rude working on the Arc de Triomphe'' (1893).
Gallery
Seneca
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Places Extrat ...
'' (1875)
File:Sylvestre Ducar decapite Flaminius (Trasimene).jpg, ''The Gaul Ducar decapitates the Roman general Gaius Flaminius at the Battle of Lake Trasimene
The Battle of Lake Trasimene was fought when a Carthaginian force under Hannibal ambushed a Roman army commanded by Gaius Flaminius on 21 June 217 BC, during the Second Punic War. It took place on the north shore of Lake Trasimene, to th ...
'' (1882)
File:Sylvestre Le Sac de Rome 1890.jpg, ''The Sack of Rome by the barbarians in 410'' (1890).
File:Sylvestre Rude sur Arc de Triomphe 1893.jpg, ''François Rude
François Rude (4 January 1784 – 3 November 1855) was a French sculptor, best known for the ''Departure of the Volunteers'', also known as ''La Marseillaise'' on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. (1835–36). His work often expressed patriotic the ...
working on the Arc de Triomphe'' (1893).
References
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* This article began as a translation of its French equivalent. 1847 births 1926 deaths People from Béziers French romantic painters French neoclassical painters Academic art 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub