François Lemoyne or François Le Moine (1688 – 4 June 1737) was a French rococo painter, born in Paris. In 1701, when he was 13 years old, he entered the Académie de peinture et de sculpture. He studied under Louis Galloche and stayed until 1713. In 1711, Lemoyne won the Prix de Rome. He was accepted as a member of the Académie in 1718 and was elected as a professor in 1733. The duc d'Antin (Louis-Antoine de Pardaillan de Grondin) was the director of the Bâtiments du Roi and had a competition in… Read more...

Author:

after Federico Barocci

Also known as:

Federico Baroccio

Fiori da Urbino

Frederico Barocci

Born:

1535

Dead:

30th Sep, 1612

Country:

Italie

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Federico Barocci (c. 1526 in Urbino – 1612 in Urbino) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio, which still in northwestern Italian dialects means a two wheel cart drawn by oxen. His work was highly esteemed and influential, and foreshadows the Baroque of Rubens. Read more...