ALEXANDRE CABANEL Art Book contains 30+ Academic Reproductions of portraits, biblical and mythical scenes with title,date and interesting facts page below. Book contains Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and has been formatted for Kindle devices and Tablets (use rotate feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).
BORN: September 28, 1823 in Montpellier, France.
DIED: January 23, 1889 in Paris, France.
MOVEMENT: Academic
INTERESTING FACTS:
§ Cabanel entered the École des Beaux-Arts when he was just seventeen years old.
§ He studied under François-Édouard Picot.
§ In 1843, Cabanel exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon. Then in 1845 he won the Prix de Rome.
§ He was elected a member and made professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1863.
§ Cabanel and Bouguereau refused to let Edouard Manet exhibit his impressionist works at the Salon in 1863.
§ Cabanel won the Légion d’honneur in 1855 and the Grande Médaille d'Honneur in 1865, 1867, and 1878.
NOTABLE WORKS:
Birth of Venus, Cleopatra Testing Poisons on the Condemned Prisoners, Ophelia.