Italian Rococo Era Painter, ca.1683-1754 Related Paintings of PIAZZETTA, Giovanni Battista :. | St. John the Baptist | Beggar Boy | Elijah Taken up in a Chariot of Fire | The Immaculate one | Judith and Holofernes | Related Artists:
Georges desmarees1697-1776
Charles rowbotham1858-1921
Jean Leon Gerome French
1824-1904
Jean Leon Gerome Galleries
French painter, sculptor, and teacher. Son of a goldsmith, he studied in Paris and painted melodramatic and often erotic historical and mythological compositions, excelling as a draftsman in the linear style of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. His best-known works are scenes inspired by several visits to Egypt. In his later years he produced mostly sculpture. He exerted much influence as a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; his pupils included Odilon Redon and Thomas Eakins. A staunch defender of the academic tradition, he tried in 1893 to block the government acceptance of the Impressionist works bequeathed by Gustave Caillebotte.
