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| | Malaspina Great Books - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) |
 | | Ingres had been friendly with a Florentine sculptor named Bartolini, and was strongly atracted by the works of the early Renaissance period, and by that art throbbing with life, and almost feverish in its manner of depicting nature, such as we find examples of in the works of Donatello and Filippo Lippi. |
 | | This same taste for what is quaint led Ingres at this period to produce a host of minor anecdotal or historical works such as Raphael and the Fornarina, Francesca da rimini (1819, in the Angers Museum), etc., works that at times display the wit, the romance, and the caprice of a quattrocento miniature. |
 | | Henceforward Ingres was looked up to as the leader of the traditional School, and he proves his claim to the title by producing the famous Apotheosis of Homer (Louvre, 1827). |
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