Epochs · France & Europe
Academic Art
c. 1830 – 1900
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The official art of the nineteenth-century Salons, taught at the École des Beaux-Arts and its counterparts across Europe. Academic painters trained for years drawing from casts and the live model, and produced polished history paintings, mythologies and Orientalist scenes with an invisible brush. Hugely popular and richly rewarded in their day, they became the establishment that Realists and Impressionists defined themselves against.
Hallmarks
- Flawless, polished finish
- Mastery of the academic nude
- History, myth and Orientalist subjects
- Success at the official Salon
Artists here
- Emanuel Leutze · 1816 – 1868
- Alexandre Cabanel · 1823 – 1889
- Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1824 – 1904
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau · 1825 – 1905
- Frederic Leighton · 1830 – 1896
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema · 1836 – 1912
- Jan Matejko · 1838 – 1893
- Osman Hamdi Bey · 1842 – 1910
