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		Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, (December 14, 1824 - October 24, 1898) was a French painter.
		He was born Pierre Cécile Puvis de Chavannes in Lyon, Rhône, France.
		He is noted for painting murals, several of which can be seen at the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) in Paris and Poitiers, the Sorbonne, and the Paris Panthéon, as well as in the United States at the Boston, Massachusetts Public Library.
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	Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, (December 14, 1824 – October 24, 1898) was a French painter.
		Although he studied with some of the romanticists, his work is seen as symbolist in nature and he is credited with influencing an entire generation.
		Awarded from 1926 by the National Society of Fine Arts (Société Nationale des Beaux Arts), Prix Puvis de Chavannes consists in a retrospective exhibition of the main works of the prizewinning artist, in Paris.
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	Puvis De Chavannes
		Puvis, in emulating this, had to divest himself of the habit of treating the figures as prescribed by the schools.
		Puvis carried it still further in order to reduce the individual characterization of the figures in favor of a complete balance of harmoniously abstract relation between the figures and their surroundings.
		For with Puvis the landscape is not incidental or subordinated to the figures; it is rather the orchestration to which the figures are contributing not separate melodies but a united chorale.
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	Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		PUVIS DE CHAVANNES, PIERRE [Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre], 1824-98, French mural painter, b.
		His chaste murals with their subdued color and allegorical figures are in the Hôtel de Ville, the Sorbonne, and the Panthéon, Paris, and in the Boston Public Library.
		The washed-out compositions of Puvis de Chavannes were once a byword for insipid classicism.
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	WetCanvas: Virtual Museum: Individual Artists: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
		Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was born on December 14, 1824, in Lyons, France, into an old Burgundian family.
		In 1850 Puvis exhibited a Pieta at the Salon.
		Puvis' independent canvases included The Poor Fisherman and Hope, copied respectively by Georges Seurat and Paul Gauguin, and The Sacred Grove Dear to the Arts and Muses, which was parodied by Toulouse-Lautrec.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
		Through his father Puvis was Burgundian — "Burgundian salt", says the proverb, that is the strongest French race, which produced such men as Bossuet, Buffon, and Lamartine.
		In the midst of the materialistic invasion of the second half of the nineteenth century Puvis (with Eugène Carrière) was the noblest champion of religious art in France.
		After the death of Meissonier (1894), Puvis was elected by acclamation to the presidency of the National Society of French Artists.
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	Biography for: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
		Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was a painter, the son of a wealthy bourgeois family.
		Puvis acted frequently as a member of the Salon jury, but resigned in 1872 and again in 1881 because of its conservative and strict regime.
		Puvis was among those who exhibited at the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, a society which formed in 1898 with JW as its President.
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	ARC :: Pierre Cécile Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) :: Page 1 of 1
		PUVIS DE CHAVANNES, PIERRE CÉCILE (1824-1898), French painter, was born at Lyons on the 14th of December 1824.
		Pierre Puvis was educated at the Lyons College and at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris, and was intended to follow his father's profession when a serious illness interrupted his studies.
		Puvis, as a rule, adhered to the presentment of the nude or of the lightest drapery; here, however, in response to some critical remarks, he has clad his figures exclusively in modern dress.
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		— Concordia (1861, 60x81cm) _ Puvis de Chavannes’ development was hardly determined by the brief and fleeting instruction received from Henri Scheffer, Delacroix and Thomas Couture.
		Puvis de Chavannes’ work is like a bridge over the painting of his age, ist piers being his friendship with Chassériau and his admiration by Seurat and Gauguin.
		The abandonment of the human figure is matched by the silver-grey of dying nature, redolent of Corot, whom Chavannes so admired, and which does not deny the muralist with its rhythmically sweeping composition.
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	AIC Art Explorer : AIC : Artist Biography : Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
		Puvis de Chavannes is best known for his murals decorating public and private buildings throughout France.
		Puvis often employed the fresco technique, approximating the appearance of ancient Roman wall paintings or Renaissance murals.
		Puvis went on to become a knight of the Légion d'Honneur in 1867 and a commander in 1889.
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	Features - Puvis De Chavannes, The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist Part 1
		Puvis de Chavannes was born into a wealthy family in Lyon.
		Visual stimulation for Puvis came from Delacroix, who painted the beheading of Saint John as a three-figure composition in the library of the Palais Bourbon, Paris in 1844.
		When Puvis returned to the subject in about 1865, he took an earlier episode in the narrative, envisaging a confrontation between victim and persecutor.
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	AIC Art Explorer : AIC : Text : Puvis de Chavannes' The Sacred Grove, 1884-89 and The Fisherman's Family, 1887
		Puvis de Chavannes' The Sacred Grove, 1884-89 and The Fisherman's Family, 1887
		PUVIS AND THE SALON Although the name of Puvis de Chavannes is anything but a household word in either France or America today, during the last two decades of his life, he was the most famous painter in France.
		Puvis, as he was called during his lifetime, obliged an adoring public by exhibiting annually at the Salon and by making for the art market replicas, reductions, and freely composed, deliberate "copies" of his famous paintings.
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	NG London/Past Exhibitions/2002/'Puvis de Chavannes'
		Puvis de Chavannes: 'The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist'
		In addition to Puvis, many other writers, poets, composers and artists, including Mallarmé, Oscar Wilde, Richard Strauss and Gustav Moreau, were fascinated by the decadence and cruelty of the women of this story, whom they regarded as types of the femme fatale.
		Puvis was a master of symbolism, allegory and decorative painting, admired during his lifetime and later by such artists as Seurat, Gauguin, Redon, Matisse and Picasso.
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	PIERRE PUVIS DE CHAVANNES - Biography
		The work of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) was often exhibited and hugely admired during the nineteenth century.
		These idyllic and melancholic works were much admired for their strength of invention, radical simplicity, gamut of new, opaque and whitened colors with scumbled textures, and the rhythmic dispositions of figures and landscape elements.
		How Puvis arrived at the simplifications and flattened images of his mature style has much to do with the peculiar circumstances of developing both monumental murals, for which he formulated a special mural aesthetic, and bringing elements of that aesthetic to his independent paintings.
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	Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
		A dreamlike counterpart to the intimate scenes of modern summer leisure favored by Manet, Renoir, and Monet in the 1860s and 70s, Puvis's epic panorama of archaic harmony conjures up a mixture of the Bible and remote antiquity in which human society is blessed by what seems eternal peace, bounty, and good weather.
		Although these remote fictions of a timeless Garden of Eden were common to the repertory of academic artists, Puvis recreated them with a strongly personal flavor that, oddly enough, was acceptable to both the establishment and to many of the young artistic rebels of later decades.
		Puvis De Chavannes, by Brian Petrie and Simon Lee.
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	JAIC 1997, Volume 36, Number 1, Article 5 (pp. 59 to 81)
		ABSTRACT—Puvis de Chavannes's allegorical murals, installed in the Boston Public Library between 1895 and 1896, were recently conserved by the staff of the Straus Center for Conservation as part of an ongoing major renovation of the building.
		Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–98), widely considered the greatest European muralist of the time, was the ideal candidate to decorate the grandest and most complicated space in the new library.
		Puvis chose colors that would harmonize with the library's marble staircase, and he flattened the figures and other elements to emphasize the two-dimensional nature of the wall.
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	Tallulahs Directory of Classical Master Artists and Nude Images; Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
		Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was born into an old Burgundian family.
		Puvis presented a second painting to the state in order that the two paintings should not be separated.
		Chavannes made decorations for the Sorbonne, from 1888 to 1889, then worked for four years on a scheme for the Paris City Hall.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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		Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES, PIERRE [Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre], 1824-98, French mural painter, b.
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	BookRags: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Biography
		Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) occupied a unique position in 19th-century French painting: he was one of the few academic painters whose work was deeply admired by the avant-garde artists of his day.
		Born in Lyons on Dec. 14, 1824, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes belonged to the generation of Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet, and he was fully aware of their revolutionary achievements.
		Although Puvis claimed he was neither radical nor revolutionary, he was admired by the symbolist poets, writers, and painters--including Paul Gauguin and Maurice Denis--and he influenced the neoimpressionist painter Georges Seurat.
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	Puvis de Chavannes-An Allegory of the Sorbonne
		When Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes accepted the commission in 1886 to paint a mural for the main building of Paris’ New Sorbonne, he accepted with it a charge that was rife with history.
		The government minister, Jules Ferry, who commissioned Puvis de Chavannes was the same man who was directly responsible for initiating reforms in the 1880s meant to secularize France.
		[i] Puvis de Chavannes was to paint the mural that would be mounted in the New Sorbonne’s hemispherical Grande Amphithéâtre,[ii] in the literal space in which the Republic’s secularizing reforms would be manifested.
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	Art History at Loggia \| Artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes at a Glance
		Artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes is recognized as one of Nineteenth century France's greatest mural painters.
		Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was born in Lyons, France, in 1824.
		As his artistic style matured, Puvis demonstrated a remarkable ability to create what might be termed "decorative" paintings, which, in other words, were works of art that were suited to adorn or decorate the walls of public buildings.
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	Amazon.ca: Dream States : Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France: Books: Jennifer L. Shaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) was a towering figure in late nineteenth-century France.
		Although his regional images, allegories of the French heritage, and evocations of the nation as an embracing motherland were all part of a grand tradition of public art, Puvis's painting style was more closely aligned with the avant-garde.
		Shaw persuasively argues that Puvis was the only painter of the period to unite the traditions of public art and modernist form.
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	Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre
		Puvis de Chavannes,: Illustrated with eight reproductions in colour
		Puvis de Chavannes, 1824-1898: [exposition], Paris, Grand Palais, 26 novembre 1976-14 février 1977 : Ottawa, Galerie nationale du Canada, 18 mars 1977-1er mai 1977 : [catalogue
		French symbolist painters: Moreau, Puvis de Chavannes, Redon and their followers: [catalogue of an exhibition held at the] Hayward Gallery, London, 7 June...
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	Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Online
		Original works by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
		Pierre Puvis de Chavannes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		All images and text on this Pierre Puvis de Chavannes page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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	Pierre Puvis De Chavannes (1824 - 1898) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Pierre C. Puvis de Chavannes, Fortune, 19th century
		Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - The Prodigal Son c.
		Pierre Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824-1898 Homer: Epic Poetry (reduction of a mural in
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	Amazon.ca: Pierre Puvis De Chavannes: Books: Aimee Brown Price (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Best known for Arcadian mural paintings peopled by somnambulist figures inhabiting a mysterious, classicized landscape, French artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-98) had a liberating influence on Gauguin, Seurat, Rodin, Denis and Picasso.
		Revered during his lifetime, the French mural painter Puvis de Chavannes (1824-98) has been neglected since his death.
		His monumental murals and paintings are distinguished for their "classicizing imagery"-pale-toned, allegorical personages from ancient times set in bucolic, flattened landscapes.
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		Winter, commissioned by a private patron, is a smaller version of a composition that Puvis de Chavannes had originally painted for the entrance foyer of the newly restored Hotel de Ville (City Hall) in Paris.
		There is no story to be told, Puvis de Chavannes described his compositions as 'poems' and symphonies.
		Like the larger scale work, the paint imitates the dry chalky effect of a fresco.
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	Art History at Loggia \| Exploring the Symbolist Artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
		Artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was one of Nineteenth century France's greatest decorative painters, and he specialized in spectacular murals that adorn public buildings.
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		And for more information, see our "artist at a glance" area - it features a brief biography of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.
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