ELIE DELAUNAY (1828-1891)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V07,
Page 946
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ELIE DELAUNAY (1828-1891)
, French painter, was born at Nantes and studied under Flandrin and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts
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He worked in the classicist manner of Ingres until, after winning the Prix de Rome, he went to 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 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)
of St Nicholas at Nantes; the three panels of " Apollo," " Orpheus " and " Amphion" at the Paris opera- house; and twelve paintings for the great See also: - HALL
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- 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, 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)
of the council of state in the Palais Royal
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His " Scenes from the Life of St Genevieve," which he. designed for the Pantheon, remained unfinished at his death
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The Luxembourg Museum has his famous " Plague in Rome " and a nude figure of " Diana "; and the Nantes Museum, the " Lesson on the Flute." In the last decade of his life he achieved great popularity as a portrait painter
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