HIPPOLYTE See also:DELAROCHE
, commonly known as See also:PAUL (1797-1856), See also:French painter, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 17th of See also:July 1797
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His See also:father was an See also:expert who had made a See also:fortune, to some extent, by negotiating and cataloguing, buying and selling
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He was proud of his son's See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent, and able to forward his See also:artistic See also:education
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The See also:master selected was See also:Gros, then See also:painting See also:life-See also:size histories, and surrounded by many pupils
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In no haste to make an See also:appearance in the See also:Salon, his first exhibited picture was a large one, Josabeth saving Joas " (1822)
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This picture led to his acquaintance with See also:Gericault and See also:Delacroix, with whom he remained on the most friendly terms, the three forming the central See also:group of a numerous See also:body of See also:historical painters, such as perhaps never before lived in one locality and at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
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From 1822 the See also:record of his life is to be found in the successive See also:works coming from his See also:hand
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He visited See also:Italy in 1838 and 1843, when his father-in-See also:law, See also:Horace See also:Vernet, was director of the French See also:Academy
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His studio in Paris was in the See also:rue Mazarine, where he never spent a See also:day without some See also:good result, his hand being sure and his knowledge See also:great
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His subjects, definitely expressed and popular in their manner of treatment, illustrating certain views of See also:history dear to partisans, yet romantic in their See also:general See also:interest, were painted with a See also:firm, solid, smooth See also:surface, which gave an appearance of the highest finish
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This solidity, found also on the See also:canvas of Vernet, See also:Scheffer, See also:Leopold See also:Robert and See also:Ingres, was the manner of the day
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It repudiates the technical See also:charm of texture and variety of handling which the See also:English school inherited as a tradition from the time of See also:Reynolds; but it is more easily under-stood by the See also:world at large, since a picture so executed depends for its interest rather on the history, See also:scene in nature or See also:object depicted, than on the executive skill, which may or may not be critically appreciated
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We may add that his point of view of the historical characters which he treated is not always just
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"See also:Cromwell lifting the See also:Coffin-lid and looking at the Body of See also:Charles " is an incident only to be excused by an improbable tradition; but " The See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King in the Guard-See also:Room, with villainous See also:roundhead soldiers blowing See also:tobacco See also:smoke in his patient See also:face, is a See also:libel on the Puritans; and " See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth dying on the Ground," like a she-See also:dragon no one dares to See also:touch, is sensational; while the "See also:Execution of See also:Lady Jane See also:Grey" is represented as taking See also:place in a See also:dungeon
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Nothing can be more incorrect than this last as a See also:reading of English history, yet we forget the inaccuracy in admiration of the treatment which represents Lady Jane, with bandaged sight, feeling for the See also:block, her maids covering their faces, and none with their eyes visible among the many figures
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On the other hand, " See also:Strafford led to Execution," when See also:Laud stretches his See also:lawn-covered arms out of the small high window of his See also:cell to give him a blessing as he passes along the See also:corridor, is perfect; and the splendid scene of See also:Richelieu in his gorgeous See also:barge, preceding the See also:boat containing Cinq-See also:Mars and De See also:Thou carried to execution by their See also:guards, is perhaps the most dramatic semi-historical See also:work ever done
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" The Princes in the See also:Tower " must also be mentioned as a very See also:complete creation; and the " See also:Young See also:female See also:Martyr floating dead on the See also:Tiber " is so pathetic that See also:criticism feels hard-hearted and ashamed before it
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As a realization of a See also:page of See also:authentic history, again, no picture can surpass the " Assassination of the duc de See also:Guise at See also:Blois." The expression of the murdered See also:man stretched out by the See also:side of the See also:bed, the conspirators all massed together towards the See also:door and far from the body, show exact study as well as insight into human nature
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This work was exhibited in his See also:meridian time, 1835; and in the same See also:year he exhibited the " See also:Head of an See also:Angel," a study from Horace Vernet's young daughter See also:Louise, his love for whom was the absorbing See also:passion of his life, and from the See also:shock of whose See also:death, in 1845, it is said he never quite recovered
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By far his finest productions after her death are of the most serious See also:character, a sequence of small elaborate pictures of incidents in the Passion
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Two of these, the Virgin and the other Maries, with the apostles See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter and See also:John, within a nearly dark apartment,
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See also:hearing the See also:crowd as it passes haling See also:Christ to See also:Calvary, and St John conducting the Virgin See also:home again after all is over, are beyond all praise as exhibiting the divine See also:story from a simply human point of view
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They are pure and elevated, and also dramatic and painful
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See also:Delaroche was not troubled by ideals, and had no affectation of them
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His See also:sound but hard execution allowed no See also:mystery to intervene between him and his motif, which was always intelligible to the million, so that he escaped all the See also:waste of See also:energy that painters who try to be poets on canvas suffer
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Thus it is that essentially the same treatment was applied by him to the characters of distant historical times, the founders of the See also:Christian See also:religion, and the real See also:people of his own day, such as " See also:Napoleon at See also:Fontainebleau," or " Napoleon at St See also:Helena," or " See also:Marie Antoinette leaving the See also:Convention " after her See also:sentence
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In 1837 Delaroche received the See also:commission for the great picture, 27 metres See also:long, in the See also:hemicycle of the lecture See also:theatre of the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts
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This represents the great artists of the See also:modern ages assembled in See also:groups on either hand of a central See also:elevation of See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:marble steps, on the topmost of which are three thrones filled by the architects and sculptors of the See also:Parthenon
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To See also:supply the female See also:element in this vast See also:composition he introduced the genii or See also:muses, who symbolize or reign over the arts, leaning against the See also:balustrade of the steps, beautiful and queenly figures with a certain See also:antique perfection of See also:form, but not informed by any wonderful or profound expression
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The portrait figures are nearly all unexceptionable and admirable
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This great and successful work is on the See also:wall itself, an inner wall however, and is executed in oil
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It was finished in 1841, and considerably injured by a See also:fire which occurred in 1855, which injury he immediately set himself to remedy (finished by Robert-See also:Fleury); but he died before he had well begun, on the 4th of See also:November 1856
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Personally Delaroche exercised even a greater See also:influence than by his works
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Though See also:short and not powerfully made, he impressed every one as rather tall than otherwise; his See also:physiognomy was accentuated and firm, and his See also:fine forehead gave him the See also:air of a See also:minister of See also:state
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See See also:Rees, Delaroche (See also:London, 188o)
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