03 — ARTWORK
Ceres and Triptolemus
LAGRENÉE, Louis-Jean-François · 1769 →
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 329 x 224 cm
- TYPE
- Mythological
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
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Few French painter of the eighteenth century were more indecisive than Lagrenée, who was capable of shifting from the flowery allegoryA work of art which represents some abstract quality or idea, either by means of a single figure (personification) or by grouping objects and figures together. Renaissance allegories make frequent allusions both to both Greek and Roman legends and literature, and also to the wealth of Christian allegorical stories and symbols developed during the Middle Ages. of Harvest (1769) to the gray classicism of The Visitation (1781). The prolific Lagrenée listened to everyone, and was alternatively treated by Diderot with harshness for his lack of ideas (SalonIn the French language of the 18th and 19th centuries it designated an actual exhibition space, as well as the academic art exhibitions staged in the Salon d'Apollon of the Louvre since 1667. From 1737, the exhibitions took place biennially and, after the French Revolution, annually in the Salon Carré of the Louvre in Paris. Towards the end of the 19th century the official Salon jury was dissolved in order to make way for a committee of state-approved artists, i.e. former Salon members, who created the highly influential Société des Artistes Français. 1769) and extolled for the "charm" of his Mercury, Herse and Aglauros (Salon 1767). This made Lagrenée a particularly indulgent director of the French Academy in Rome from 1781 to 1787.
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