- Louis Janmot
Anne-François-Louis Janmot (
May 21 ,1814 –June 1 ,1892 ) was a French painter and poet.He was born in
Lyon and studied art at theEcole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, beginning in 1831. In 1833 he went toParis . There, and later inRome , he studied underJean Auguste Dominique Ingres .Like
Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin , another painter from Lyon and student of Ingres, Janmot carried out many commissions for church decorations. In his paintings the immaculate finish of Ingres was combined with a mysticism that has parallels in the work of his contemporaries the Nazarenes and thePre-Raphaelites . [Turner, 2000, p. 258.] His most significant work, a cycle of 18 paintings and 16 drawings, with verse, called "La Poème de l'âme", occupied him for 40 years.Janmot has been seen as a transitional figure between
Romanticism and Symbolism, prefiguring the french part of thePre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ; his work was admired byPuvis de Chavannes ,Odilon Redon , andMaurice Denis . [Turner, 2000, p. 258.]Notes
References
*Turner, J. (2000). "From Monet to Cézanne: late 19th-century French artists". Grove Art. New York: St Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-22971-2
External links
[http://www.mba-lyon.fr/mba/sections/fr/collections-musee/peintures/oeuvres-peintures/xixe_siecle/le_poeme_de_lame?&startingReq=/sections/fr/collections-musee/peintures/oeuvres-peintures&from_url=http%3A//www.mba-lyon.fr/mba/sections/fr/collections-musee/peintures/oeuvres-peintures%3Fb_start%3Aint%3D40 Le Poème de l’âme – L'idéal]
[http://www.mba-lyon.fr/ Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon]
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