BOUGUEREAU, ADOLPHE WILLIAM

ädôlfˈ, boogrōˈ, 1825–1905, French academic painter. He won the Prix de Rome in 1850 and became extremely popular during the 1860s and 70s. He is famous for his nudes and for his historical and religious paintings. His La Jeunesse et l'Amour is in the Louvre.

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The Reader's Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia of World Literature and the Arts
Book by William Rose Benét; Thomas Y. Crowell, 1948
Subjects: Art--Dictionaries, Literature--Dictionaries, Music--Dictionaries
William Pitt was humorously called the bottomless...verse drama. Bottomley, Horatio William 1860-1933 . Established the rabidly...Pogue 1864 , and The Shaughraun 1875 . Bouguereau, Adolphe William 1825-1905 . Popular French decorative...
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Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire, 1852-1870
Book by William E. Echard; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: France--History--Second Empire, 1852-1870--Dictionaries
...entries: DEAUVILLE; MONET. BOUGUEREAU, WILLIAM ADOLPHE, 1825-1905 , academic painter...Bordeaux and then at Paris, Bouguereau had his paintings accepted...particular Raphael and Giotto. Bouguereau was well received on his return...
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Victorian Olympus
Book by William Gaunt; Oxford University Press, 1952
Subjects: Leighton Of Stretton, Frederic Leighton--Baron--1830-1896, Painting--England--History
...Albert, Prince, 62 Allingham, William, 61 Alma-Tadema, Lourens...89 Bismarck, 132 Blake, William, 129 Boehm, Sir Edgar, R...Bonheur, Rosa 1822-99 , 73 Bouguereau, william Adolphe 1825- 1905 , 66 Boulanger...
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Encyclopedia of Painting: Painters and Painting of the World from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day
Book by Bernard S. Myers; Crown Publishers, 1979
Subjects: Painters--Biography, Painting--Dictionaries
BOUGUEREAU. The Two Sisters Metropolitan Museum...and sea scenes. See illustration. Bouguereau, Adolphe William 1825-1905 . Popular French academic...career in business in La Rochelle, Bouguereau rebelled and joined Picots studio...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Book by Ian Chilvers; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Art--Dictionaries, Artists--Biography--Dictionaries
...Honfleur, his native town. Bouguereau, Adolphe-William 1825-1905 . French painter...from the Salon de Monsieur Bouguereau . He painted portraits of photographic...of all progressive ideas, Bouguereau has recently achieved something...
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journal articles on: Bouguereau Adolphe William  - 3 results

 
 
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Lathers, Marie. Bodies of Art. French Literary Realism and the Artist's Model
Journal article by Beth S. Wright; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 32, 2004
Subjects: Bodies of Art: French Literary Realism and the Artist's Model (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...art works are identified for the pompier artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau, the subject of Legrands cartoon for Le Courrier...230) that Le Nu Esthetique was dedicated to Bouguereau, and contained a preface by Gerome the reader...
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Ferris Views Washington
Journal article by James C. Kelly; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1996
Subjects: Art exhibits, Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome (1863-1930)
...Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in Paris under William Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean Leon Gerome, for whom Ferris was named...Independence Hall, 1793, and one of the Welcome, William Penns ship that hangs overhead in Writing the Declaration...
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"It Is Surprising That There Are Any Happy Wives"
Journal article by Mary W. Blanchard; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 8, 1996
Subjects: Women--History
...Art Interchange reproduced works of prominent artists, many from the French Salon School. The inclusion of William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a provocative gesture. Replications of his "Twilight" (fig. 4) and "Aurora," nudes with flowing...


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A Classic Comeback
Magazine article by Robert Stacy Mccain; Insight on the News, Vol. 16, December 11, 2000
Subjects: Art criticism--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painting, Modern--19th century
...painters such as John William Waterhouse and neoclassicalists...revived interest in Adolphe-William Bouguereau, the 19th-century...critic Fred Ross. Bouguereau is "the greatest painter...absorbed from his mentor, William Paxton, who had been...
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Splendide Californie!: Selections by French Artists in California History, 1786-1900
Magazine article by Claudine Chalmers; California History, Vol. 79, Winter 2000
Subjects: Artists, French--Criticism and interpretation, California--Portrayals, French (European people)--History, French (European people)--United States, French artists--Criticism and interpretation, French in the United States--History
...Strong, Gideon Jacques Denny, William Keith, Leon Trousset, and...Gustave-Rodolphe Boulanger, Adolphe-William Bouguereau, Jules-Joseph Lefebvre...138. (5.) Frederick William Beechey, An Account of a Visit...
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The Baddest of Bad Art - Reviled until Recently, Academic Art Is Being Revalued, and a Museum Inspired by a Mystical Beirut Collector Is Helping to Show the Way
Magazine article by Carol Kino; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, April 2000
...bedraggled peasant girl painted by Adolphe-William Bouguereau, whose chocolate-box style...include work by Pablo Picasso and Bouguereau and also a miniature re-creation...1998, at Sothebys, a large Bouguereau belonging to Sylvester Stallone...
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Baddest of Bad Art: Reviled until Recently, Academic Art Is Being Revalued, and a Museum (Dahesh Museum in New York City) Inspired by a Mystical Beirut Collector Is Helping to Show the Way
Magazine article by Carol Kino; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, April 2000
Subjects: Art collectors--Lebanon, Art criticism, Art museums, Museums, New York, New York
...bedraggled peasant girl painted by Adolphe-William Bouguereau, whose chocolate-box style...include work by Pablo Picasso and Bouguereau and also a miniature re-creation...1998, at Sothebys, a large Bouguereau belonging to Sylvester Stallone...
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Where Time Stands Still
Magazine article by Mark Mussari; Southwest Art, Vol. 38, September 2008
Subjects: Art exhibits, Artists studios, Museums, Native North Americans, Traditions, Visual artists
...work in a museum. She also cites French realist Adolphe William Bouguereau as another important influence. "They both painted...Sometimes I start a painting and wonder how Sargent or Bouguereau would paint it." Henderson often focuses attention...
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newspaper articles on: Bouguereau Adolphe William  - 5 results

 
 
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Artists Advocate Return to Classics
Newspaper article by Robert Stacy Mccain; The Washington Times, October 29, 2000
...the revived interest in William Adolphe Bouguereau, the 19th-century master...century French master William Adolphe Bouguereau. * Art Renewal Center...painters Pierre Auguste Cot, William Adolphe Bouguereau and John William Godward...
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Art Survives in Spite of It All
Newspaper article by Suzanne Fields; The Washington Times, October 16, 1997
...introductory arts survey class. He asked them to write an interpretive essay on the painting, "Nymphs and Satyr" by Adolphe William Bouguereau. The painting is notorious for its overripe erotic imagery of naked, teasing nymphs encircling a horned satyr...
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Divine Intervention Nude Painting a Lifesaver; 19th Century Painting Inspires Lifesaving Action
Newspaper article; Daily Examiner (Grafton, Australia), May 17, 2011
Subjects: Artists, Painting, Painting (Art)
...poster of a painting by 19th century French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau, called Evening Mood. The nude model in the painting...it was completed. In a strange twist, it seems Bouguereau had unknowingly diagnosed his wifes illness by...
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The Post Files
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 12, 1998
Subjects: Dion, Celine
...Sylvester Stallone, has made a bundle on a painting by William Adolphe Bouguereau. Stallone sold Alma Parens for around pounds 1...delighted" at the sale. The previous record for a Bouguereau was set in May 1997, at pounds 875,000. Singer...
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The Italian Job; Visual Arts A New Exhibition Responds to an Italian Trip Undertaken Almost 100 Years Ago by Art-Collecting Welsh Sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies. Julie Richards Takes a Closer Look
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), February 15, 2008
Subjects: Art exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions, Davies, Margaret
...truth. The work is a brightly coloured distortion of Adolphe William Bouguereaus painting Leveil du Coeur (1892). He...such as the Davies sisters. This particular work by Bouguereau is now, like many other works of art, a mass-produced...


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Bouguereau, Adolphe William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BOUGUEREAU, ADOLPHE WILLIAM adolf , boogro , 1825 1905, French academic painter. He won the Prix de Rome in 1850 and became extremely popular during the...


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