Belisarius
Belisarius c1797 by French Painter Baron François-Pascal-Simon Gérard (1770 – 1837); seorang pelukis periode Neoklasik yang terkenal dengan sejarahnya, mythological and portraits of the aristocracy, who was named Baron of the Empire in 1809 by Emperor Napoleon; who was then known as Baron Gérard.
This painting is the artwork on which the Belisarius engraving is based on; which depicts the Byzantine General who served under the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I in the 6th Century AD.; as a blind beggar carrying his injured guide in his left arm.
The guide is resting against the shoulder and head of Belisarius, while a snake is wrapped around the boys left leg on which we can see drops of blood, as the snake hangs from his leg with its head toward the ground.
Belisarius is walking by the shoreline using his walking stick to guide him through the rough terrain, that has plants by his feet on his left and right sides as well as some rocks.
In the background we can see a building on the opposite bank of the river among some trees and in front of a mountain range; as well as a whisper of clouds in the sky.
Catatan: That this painting is based on an unsubstantiated story that was made popular by 18th century neoclassicist, which followed from an assassination attempt that was made against Emperor Justinian I, in which conspirators implicated Belisarius, which led to him being disgraced and stripped of all his honors for a period of 7 months.
This is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available online for purchase as a cetak kanvas gulung.
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François Gérard was born in Rome, Italy to J. S. Gérard and Cleria Matteï. At the age of twelve, Gérard obtained admission into the Pension du Roi in Paris. From the Pension, he passed to the studio of the sculptor Augustin Pajou, which he left at the end of two years for the studio of the history painter Nicolas-Guy Brenet, whom he quit almost immediately to place himself under Jacques-Louis David.
Di 1789, he competed for the Prix de Rome, which was carried off by his comrade Girodet. In the following year (1790), he again presented himself, but the death of his father prevented the completion of his work and obliged him to accompany his mother to Rome.
Di 1791, he returned to Paris, but his poverty was so great that he was forced to forgo his studies in favor of employment which would bring in immediate profit.
David at once availed himself of his help, and one of that master’s most celebrated portraits, of Louis-Michel Le Pelletier de Saint-Fargeau, may owe much to the hand of Gérard.
This painting was executed early in 1793, the year in which Gérard, at the request of David, was named a member of the revolutionary tribunal, from the fatal decisions of which he, namun, invariably absented himself.
Di 1794, he obtained the first prize in a competition, the subject of which was The Tenth of August, itu adalah, the storming of the Tuileries Palace. Further stimulated by the successes of his rival and friend Girodet in the Salons of 1793 dan 1794, Gérard (aided by Jean-Baptiste Isabey, the miniaturist) produced in 1795 his famous Bélisaire.
Di 1796, a portrait of his generous friend (conserved today in the Louvre) obtained undisputed success, and the money received from Isabey for these two works enabled Gérard to execute in 1797 his Psyche et l’Amour (ilustrasi).[4] At last, di 1799, his portrait of Madame Mère established his position as one of the foremost portrait-painters of the day.
Di 1808, as many as eight (dan masuk 1810, no less than fourteen) portraits by him were exhibited at the Salon, dan angka-angka ini hanya memberikan indikasi jumlah besar yang dia lakukan setiap tahun. Semua tokoh terkemuka Kekaisaran dan Restorasi Bourbon, dan semua pria dan wanita paling terkenal di Eropa, duduk untuk Gérard.
Mode yang luar biasa ini sebagian disebabkan oleh pesona sikap dan percakapannya, karena salonnya sama seringnya dengan studionya. Nyonya de Staël, George Canning, Talleyrand dan Duke of Wellington semuanya menjadi saksi daya tarik masyarakatnya.
Kaya dan terkenal, Gérard was stung by remorse for earlier ambitions abandoned; at intervals, he had indeed striven with Girodet and other rivals to prove his strength at history painting, still a more prestigious genre than portraiture.
His Bataille d’Austerlitz (1810) showed a breadth of invention and style which was even more conspicuous in L’Entrée d’Henri IV à Paris (at Versailles), the work with which in 1817 he paid homage to the returned Louis XVIII. After this date, Gérard declined, watching with impotent grief the progress of the Romantic school.
Loaded with honors – baron of the Empire in 1809, member of the Institut on 7 berbaris 1812, officer of the Légion d’honneur, first painter to the king – he worked on, sad and discouraged. The revolution of 1830 added to his disquiet, and on 11 Januari 1837, after three days of fever, he died.
Gérard is best remembered for his portraits. The color of his paintings has suffered, but his drawings show in uninjured delicacy the purity of his line, and those of women are specially remarkable for a virginal simplicity and frankness of expression. His students included Heinrich Christoph Kolbe.
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