Our Lady of the Angels
Our Lady of the Angels c1889 by French Painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 – 1905) di i periodi neoclassici è accademici, chì hà criatu interpretazioni muderni di sughjetti classici basati di temi mitologichi.
Our Lady of the Angels, Originally Titled: Notre Dame Des Angels; depicts the Virgin Mary Mother Of Jesus Carrying the Baby Jesus in her arms as she stands on a cloud with Eight baby angels positioned around her feet and two additional angels inside some clouds in the upper right.
With this piece I took the liberty to colorize the image; to give the image a more engaging look over the reddish brown color of the original.
Our Lady of the Angels is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available for purchase as a stampa su tela in linea.
Info sottu à cortesia Wikipedia.org
William Adolphe Bouguereau hè natu in La Rochelle, Francia, nantu 30 Nuvembre 1825, into a family of wine and olive oil merchants.[4] The son of Théodore Bouguereau (natu 1800) and Marie Bonnin (1804), cunnisciutu cum'è Adeline, William was brought up a Catholic. Avia un fratellu maiò, Alfred, è una surella minore, Marie (cunnisciutu cum'è Hanna), who died when she was seven.
A famiglia si trasferì à Saint-Martin-de-Ré in 1832. Un altru fratellu hè natu in 1834, Kitty. À l'età di 12, Bouguereau andò à Mortagne per stà cù u so ziu Eugène, un prete è hà sviluppatu un amore per a natura, religione è literatura.
In 1839, fù mandatu à studià per u sacerdòziu in un cullegiu cattolico in Pons. Here he was taught to draw and paint by Louis Sage, chì avia studiatu sottu Ingres. Bouguereau abbandunò i so studii per vultà à a so famiglia, ora residente in Bordeaux.
There he met a local artist, Charles Marionneau, and commenced at the Municipal School of Drawing and Painting in November 1841. Bouguereau hà ancu travagliatu cum'è assistente di buttrega, lithografie di culore di manu è fà picculi pitture chì sò stati riproduci cù a cromolitografia.
Era prestu u megliu allievu in a so classe, è decisu di diventà un artista in Parigi. Per finanzà a mossa, he sold portraits – 33 oils in three months. All were unsigned and only one has been traced. He arrived in Paris aged 20 in marzu 1846.
Égalité devant la mort (Ugualità prima di a morte), 1848, oil on canvas, 141 × 269 cm (55.5 × 105.9 in), Musée d’Orsay, Parigi. Equality is Bouguereau’s first major painting, produced after two years at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris at the age of 23.
Bouguereau became a student at the École des Beaux-Arts.[4] To supplement his formal training in drawing, hà assistitu à dissezioni anatomiche è hà studiatu costumi storichi è archeologia.
He was admitted to the studio of François-Édouard Picot, induve hà studiatu pittura in u stilu accademicu. Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850) was an early example of his neo-classical works.
Academic painting placed the highest status on historical and mythological subjects, and Bouguereau determined to win the Prix de Rome, which would gain him a three-year residence at the Villa Medici in Rome, italia, where in addition to formal lessons he could study first-hand the Renaissance artists and their masterpieces, as well as Greek, Etruscan, and Roman antiquities.