The Virgin with Angels
The Virgin with Angels c.1900 by French Painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 – 1905) of the Academic Period, chì hà criatu interpretazioni muderni di sughjetti classici basati di temi mitologichi.
This painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau shows the Virgin Mary, holding the baby Jesus surrounded by Heavenly Angels, with the light of Heaven embracing them all. While the Virgin Mary holds the baby Jesus in her arms standing in front of a white marble throne chair with blue cushions and decorated on the front with decorative tiles; while some Angels in front of Mary kneel before her, and all of the pay homage to the infant son of GOD; Christ The Savior.
The Virgin with Angels is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a stampa su tela arrotolata in linea.
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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.