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Pierre Mosnier
Pierre Monier or Mosnier (17 May 1641 – 29 December 1703) was a French painter and art historian. Mosnier was born in Blois. His father Jean Monier was also painter, and was his first teacher. In 1664, he won the inaugural Prix de Rome for his painting ''la Conquête de la Toison d’Or'' ("The Conquest of the Golden Fleece"). In 1665, he travelled to Rome to continue his studies at the Roman Academies#Pontificia Accademia dei Nobili Ecclesiastici, School of Rome. He moved back and took up residence in Paris, where he fulfilled a number of commissions, primarily religious-themed works for churches, such as for the Saint-Sulpice, Paris. On 6 October 1674, he accepted as an Academician for his painting ''Hercule se préparant à la défense de la ville de Thèbes, sa patrie, menacée par les Minyens, et recevant d’Apollon des flèches, de Mercure une épée et de Vulcain une cuirasse''. Mosnier later taught at the Académie de peinture et de sculpture. In 1698, he wrote and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Tournières
Robert Le Vrac de Tournières (17 June 1667 – 18 May 1752) was a French painter. After the Second World War, a street in the new Saint-Paul district of his home city of Caen was named ''rue Robert Tournières''.''Les 50.000 adresses du Calvados et Annuaire Administratif Réunis'', Caen, 1964, p. 509. Life Studying under Lucas Delahaye, then under Bon Boullogne and Hyacinthe Rigaud, Rigaud, Tournières was notable for being received twice into the Académie royale de peinture – first in 1702 as a portrait painter, with his portraits of the painters Pierre Mosnier and Michel Corneille; and then on 24 October 1716, as a history painter, with his ''Invention of drawing'' (1716), showing a pair of lovers lit by a single candle. Promoted to professeur auxiliaire in 1737, he exhibited successfully at the 1742 salon. His œuvre's heterogenous nature is typical of an artist of the transitional period of the French Regency – the Dutch elements give his work a new and more intimate c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
