Joseph-Marie Vien | French painter | Britannica (original) (raw)

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association with David

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  In Jacques-Louis David: Formative years
  …placed in the studio of Joseph-Marie Vien, a history painter who catered to the growing Greco-Roman taste without quite abandoning the light sentiment and the eroticism that had been fashionable earlier in the century. At age 18, the obviously gifted budding artist was enrolled in the school of the Royal…
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contribution to Neoclassical art

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  In Neoclassical art: France
  …well as being a painter, Joseph-Marie Vien was a friend of the archaeologist Caylus and a director of the French Academy in Rome. That generation also included Jean-Baptiste Greuze, who painted a few Classical history subjects as well as the scenes from contemporary life for which he is best known;…
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