Academic art
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Academic art, academicism, or academism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. This method extended its influence throughout the Western world
The Birth of Venus by William Adolphe Bouguereau
Alexandre Cabanel Phèdre
The Roses of Heliogabalus
Giorgio Vasari helped found the Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno (Academy and Company for the Arts of Drawing) in 1563
Jean-Léon Gérôme
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Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880."
Academic art
…the salon was a seal of approval for an artist, making his work saleable to the growing ranks of private collectors. Bouguereau, Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Léon Gérôme were leading figures of this art world. During the reign of academic art, the paintings of the Rococo era, previously held in low favor, were revived…
Photograph by Nadar
Birthplace of Jean-Léon Gérôme in Vesoul, France
The Cock Fight (1846; Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
The Age of Augustus, the Birth of Christ, c. 1852–1854, Musée de Picardie