The work of Ingres, only seemingly rooted in Academic painting, undoubtedly constitutes an important forerunner of the late 19th- and early 20th-century artistic revolutions. The heir to Raphael and Poussin, Ingres’ work anticipates both Picasso and anatomical distortion in art, inspiring the revitalisation of the 19th-century European art schools, particularly the Spanish.
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The Dream of Ossian (1813; retouched by Raymond Balze in 1835), Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
Ruggiero rescuing Angelica (1819), Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
Grande Odalisque (1814), Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
The Forestier Family Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne (1806), Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
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