A Ruined Gothic Colonnade
The Effect of Fog and Snow Seen through A Ruined Gothic Colonnade c1826 by French Painter Louis Daguerre (1787 – 1851), reconegut per la seva invenció del procés de fotografia daguerotip i considerat un dels pares de la fotografia; també va ser un experimentat pintor i desenvolupador del teatre Diorama.
Una columnata gòtica en ruïnes és una poderosa imatge captivadora d’un oblidat durant molt de temps arruïnat estructura gòtica que domina una serra nevada mentre dos homes caminen pel llarg i solitari corredor ruïnós de l'antic edifici gòtic, amb les seves boniques columnes i arcs.
A Ruined Gothic Colonnade is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a impressió enrotllada en línia.
Informació a continuació derivada de Wikipedia.org
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was born on the 18th of November in 1787 in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val d'Oise, França; and is better known as Louis Daguerre, who was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography.
He is known as one of the fathers of photography, and even though he is most famous for his contributions to photography, he was also an accomplished painter and a developer of the diorama theater.
Va ser aprenent d’arquitectura, disseny de teatre, and panoramic painting under the first French Panorama Painter Pierre Prévost (1764 – 1823).
He was exceedingly well adept at his skill of theatrical illusion, and he became a celebrated designer for the theater, which later led to him inventing the diorama, que es va obrir a París al juliol 1822.
En 1829, Daguerre partnered with French Inventor Nicéphore Niépce (1765 – 1833), who had produced the world’s first heliograph in 1822 i la fotografia de càmera més antiga que es conserva 1826 o bé 1827.
Though Niépce died suddenly in 1833, Daguerre continued experimenting with the photographic process, and evolved the method that would eventually be known as the daguerreotype.
After efforts to interest private investors proved fruitless, Daguerre went public with his invention in 1839; and at a joint meeting of the French Academy of Sciences and the Académie des Beaux Arts on 7 January of that year, the invention was announced and described in general terms, but all specific details were withheld.
Under assurances of strict confidentiality, Daguerre va explicar i demostrar el procés només al secretari perpetu de l’Acadèmia, François Arago, who proved to be an invaluable advocate.
Members of the Academy and other select individuals were allowed to examine specimens of Daguerre’s work at his studio, which won him enthusiastic praise; with the process being though of as nearly miraculous, which led to the news of the daguerreotype spreading quickly.
Then the French Government made arrangements to acquire the rights to Daguerre’s invention in exchange for a lifetime pension for himself and the 19 year old sone of Niépce’s son Isidore.
Then on August 19, 1939 the French Government presented his invention as a free gift to the world, with complete instruction on how to create photographs; later that year Daguerre was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician.
Daguerre va morir, d'un atac de cor, on July 10, 1851 a Bry-sur-Marne, 12 km (7 el meu) de París; and a monument was erected that marks his grave, and his name is also one of 72 other to be inscribed on the Eiffel tower.