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The people behind the art
1825 to 1905
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter (1825–1905). Their work is associated with academic art; Pont-Aven School. Their recorded places of work include Paris; Rome.
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Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau
A docent's tour of Bouguereau's 1850 Salon painting, showing Dante and Virgil watching the damned Capocchio and Gianni Schicchi struggle in Hell, with a winged demon presiding over them.
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau
A docent-led visit to Bouguereau's Nymphs and Satyr, a large mythological painting exhibited at the 1873 Paris Salon, in which playful nymphs drag a reluctant satyr toward a woodland pond. The account distinguishes what we can see from what the sources establish about its literary source, its comic tradition, and its later life in New York.
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