L2

• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was one of the most revered French painters and was noted for his Neoclassical, historical, mythical, and nude paintings and portraitures.
• Ingres was known to follow his own instincts
• Ingres' challenge in creating his portrait was to find a way of asserting Napoleon's imperial legitimacy while also making it palatable to the same French citizens who had beheaded the king and overthrown the monarchy less than a decade earlier.
• 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 ascendant Romantic style.
• Ingres was born on August 29, 1780 in Montauban, France.
• Ingres died on January 14, 1867 in Paris, France.
• Ingres received his first artistic instruction from his father, Jean-Marie-Joseph Ingres, an artistic jack-of-all-trades of modest talent but considerable professional and social pretensions.
• Ingres’s formal education at the school of the Brothers of Christian Doctrine was cut short by the abolition of religious orders in France in 1791, during the Revolution, and so he transferred to the fine arts academy in Toulouse.
• Because the French treasury, strained by Napoleon’s wars, was unable to pay for his scholarship in Rome, Ingres was forced to remain in Paris. He began to distinguish himself as a portraitist, and in 1804 he fulfilled his first official commission in this genre, Bonaparte as First Consul.
• In the Philippines, the Neoclassicism style of painting is evident in Juan Luna's Spoliarium.
• Spoliarium is a Latin word that refers to the basement of the Roman Colosseum where the fallen gladiators are devoid of their possessions.