Romain Cazes (1810–1881) was a French
historical painter
History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often (but not exclusively) Greek and Roman mythology and Bible ...
.
Life
Cazes was born at
St. Béat (
Haute-Garonne
Haute-Garonne (; , ; ''Upper Garonne'') is a department in the southwestern French region of Occitanie. Named after the river Garonne, which flows through the department. Its prefecture and main city is Toulouse, the country's fourth-largest. ...
) in 1810. He was a pupil of
Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( ; ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassicism, Neoclassical Painting, painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic ...
, and is known chiefly by his portraits and subjects from sacred history. His paintings and murals decorate the Paris churches of
St. Francois Xavier and
Notre-Dame de Clignancourt
Notre-Dame de Clignancourt (Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic), Our Lady of Clignancourt) is a Roman Catholic church architecture, church located in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, 18th arrondissement of Paris. Completed in 1863, the church tak ...
, as well as churches in the provinces. Like all of the pupils of Ingres, except for
Flandrin Flandrin is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include a family of 19th and 20th-century painters:
*Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809–1864), French painter, the best-known of the family
* Paul Flandrin (1811–1902), painter, brother o ...
, he never rose above mediocrity, and died in 1881.
Ariadne
In Greek mythology, Ariadne (; ; ) was a Cretan princess, the daughter of King Minos of Crete. There are variations of Ariadne's myth, but she is known for helping Theseus escape from the Minotaur and being abandoned by him on the island of N ...
abandoned '' Musée Ingres Montauban
Montauban (, ; ) is a commune in the southern French department of Tarn-et-Garonne. It is the capital of the department and lies north of Toulouse. Montauban is the most populated town in Tarn-et-Garonne, and the sixth most populated of Oc ...
CazesMamet.JPG, Fresco
Fresco ( or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting become ...
es in the church of Saint-Mamet
Saint-Mamet (; Gascon: ''Sent Mamet'') is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Haute-Garonne department
The following is a list of the 586 communes in the French depart ...
, Haute Garonne, France.
CazesLuchon.JPG, ''Jesus healing the paralytic at Capernaum
Healing the paralytic at Capernaum is one of the miracles of Jesus in the synoptic Gospels ( Matthew 9:1– 8, Mark 2:1–12, and Luke 5:17–26). Jesus was living in Capernaum and teaching the people there, and on one occasion the people gat ...
'', in the church of Bagnères-de-Luchon
Bagnères-de-Luchon (; ), also referred to as just Luchon, is a Communes of France, commune and spa town in the Haute-Garonne Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie region of south-western France.
T ...
, Haute Garonne, France.
Romain CAZES - L'Ame exilée - Musée des Augustins - 1997 1 1.jpg, ''L'Ame exilée'', 1838, oil on canvas, in the Musée des Augustins
The Musée des Augustins de Toulouse () is a fine arts museum in Toulouse, France which conserves a collection of sculpture and paintings from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. The paintings are from throughout France, the sculptures rep ...
References
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1810 births
1881 deaths
People from Haute-Garonne
French male painters
19th-century French painters
Painters from Occitania (administrative region)
19th-century painters of historical subjects
19th-century French male artists
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