Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini was an Italian Classical and Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greates
Portrait of Cherubini with a bust of his mentor Giuseppe Sarti (1792)
Title page of the first edition of Cherubini's Médée, full score, 1797
Portrait by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The crowning Muse displeased Cherubini and is blacked out in some copies.[citation needed]
The grave of Cherubini, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, with sculpture by Augustin Dumont
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascen
Luigi Cherubini
…very even, because he was always angry". Nevertheless, Cherubini had many friends, including Szymanowska, Rossini, Chopin and, above all, the artist Ingres. The two had mutual interests: Cherubini was a keen amateur painter, and Ingres enjoyed practising the violin. In 1841, Ingres produced the most…
Male Torso (1800), Montauban, Musée Ingres
The Envoys of Agamemnon, 1801, oil on canvas, École des Beaux Arts, Paris
Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne, 1806, oil on canvas, 260 x 163 cm, Musée de l'Armée, Paris