William Bouguereau

Adolphe William Bouguereau( French: Adolphe William Bouguereau; 30 November 1825, La Rochelle — 19 August 1905, there) was a French painter, a prominent representative of salon academism of the XIX century . His work can be described as "the quintessential painting of his generation". The catalogues include 828 paintings by Bouguereau, mostly on mythological, allegorical and biblical subjects. Researchers attribute his work to the so-called " romantic realism»because, following the methods of romanticism, he preferred to write from nature and reproduced the appearance of his models with photographic accuracy. In the 1890s, he was influenced by symbolism, which he interpreted as a method of revealing the essence of the person depicted using secondary details that carry a semantic load. More detailed>>>