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unusual facts about William Bouguereau



City of the Gods: Forgotten

The trade paperback edition has over 80 illustrations, many by notable artists Gustave Doré, Lord Frederick Leighton, Léon François Commerre, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Arthur Hughes, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Ingres, Diego Velázquez, William Bouguereau, Botticelli, John William Waterhouse, and others of the 16th-18th centuries.

Rehs Galleries, Inc.

Today the gallery specializes in 19th- and early 20th-century European works of art and displays paintings many important Barbizon, Realist, Academic and Impressionist artists including: Eugène Boudin, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, William Bouguereau, Julien Dupré, Daniel Ridgway Knight, Edouard Cortes and Emile Munier.

The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy

However, it has become somewhat controversial, both for its unabashedly academic style, inspired both by Jacques-Louis David and William Bouguereau, and for its highly symbolic content, said to express the cycle of denial and tragedy.


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