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Life of JOSEPH-MARIE VIEN


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  French painter. A winner of the Prix de Rome , he was in Rome at a time (1743-50) that coincided with excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii, and in his lifetime he gained a great reputation (partly self-promoted) as a pioneer of the Neoclassical style. He was enthusiastic for the ideas of Winckelmann, but his classicism was of a very superficial kind, consisting of prim and sentimentalized anecdote or allegory with pseudo-antique trappings {The Cupid Seller, Chteau de Fontainebleau, 1763). Nevertheless, he gauged the taste of the time well and had a career of exemplary success, becoming director of the French Academy in Rome (1776) and First Painter to the King (1789). He was made a senator by Napoleon after the Revolution, a count in 1808, and was buried in the Pantheon. David was his most important pupil. His son, Joseph-Marie the Younger (1762-1848), was also a painter, mainly of portraits.
  
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La Marchande d'Amours
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Marcus Aurelius Distributing Bread to the People
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Venus Showing Mars her Doves Making a Nest in his Helmet
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St Denis Preaching in Gaul
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