Alexandre Cabanel
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Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. He was Napoleon III's preferred pai
Self-Portrait, 1852, Musée Fabre
The Birth of Venus (1863)
The Fallen Angel (1847)
Albaydé (1848)
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
Alexandre Cabanel
…Alexandre Cabanel (French: ; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. He was Napoleon III's preferred painter and, with Gérôme and Meissonier, was one of "the three most…
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