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Sunday, March 11, 2012

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Art Appreciation

Born on November 30, 1825, French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau was at his time considered one of the greatest painter in the world. 

Bouguereau, a well educated artist, practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism known as Academism.

His paintings were mostly modern interpretations of mythological and biblical stories.  He was admired for the accurate rendering of the human body in his paintings.

L'amore et Psyche, 1890

Boucle d'oreille, 1891

Pieta, 1876
Childhood Idyll, 1900
The Birth of Venus, 1879

Source: Wikipedia


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