See also:ELIE See also:DELAUNAY (1828-1891)
, See also:French painter, was See also:born at See also:Nantes and studied under See also:Flandrin and at the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts
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He worked in the classicist manner of See also:Ingres until, after winning the Prix de See also:Rome, he went to See also:Italy in 1856, and abandoned the ideal of Raphaelesque perfection for the sincerity and severity of the quattrocentists
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As a pure and See also:firm draughtsman he stands second only to Ingres
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After his return from Rome he was entrusted with many important commissions for decorative paintings, such as the frescoes in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Nicholas at Nantes; the three panels of " See also:Apollo," " See also:Orpheus " and " See also:Amphion" at the See also:Paris See also:opera-See also:house; and twelve paintings for the See also:great See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall of the See also:council of See also:state in the Palais Royal
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His " Scenes from the See also:Life of St See also:Genevieve," which he. designed for the See also:Pantheon, remained unfinished at his See also:death
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The Luxembourg Museum has his famous " See also:Plague in Rome " and a nude figure of " See also:Diana "; and the Nantes Museum, the " See also:Lesson on the See also:Flute." In the last See also:decade of his life he achieved great popularity as a portrait painter
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