Fine Art and You

Hi all art lovers! If you've ever walked through a gallery of 19th-century paintings and found yourself squinting at the little placard trying to figure out why one stormy shipwreck scene is labeled "Romanticism" while another painting of two guys breaking rocks is labeled "Re…

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was a distinguished French Neoclassical painter. Although he initially identified himself as a history painter in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, his portraits, both in oil and pencil, eventually emerged as his most celebrated …