Jean-Paul Laurens

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Jean-Paul Laurens
File:Laurens - Self portrait.jpg
Self-portrait
Born 28 March 1838
Fourquevaux, July Monarchy
Died 23 March 1921 (1921-03-24) (aged 82)
Paris, French Third Republic
Known for Painting
File:Jean-Paul Laurens by Auguste Rodin 1881, Albertinum, Dresden.jpg
Jean-Paul Laurens by Auguste Rodin 1881, Albertinum, Dresden

Jean-Paul Laurens (French pronunciation: ​[ʒɑ̃pol loʁɑ̃]; 28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style.

Biography

Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida. Strongly anti-clerical and republican, his work was often on historical and religious themes, through which he sought to convey a message of opposition to monarchical and clerical oppression. His erudition and technical mastery were much admired in his time, but in later years his highly realistic technique, coupled to a theatrical mise-en-scène, came to be regarded by some art-historians as overly didactic. More recently, however, his work has been re-evaluated as an important and original renewal of history painting, a genre of painting that was in decline during Laurens' lifetime.

Laurens was commissioned to paint numerous public works by the French Third Republic, including the steel vault of the Paris City Hall, the monumental series on the life of Saint Genevieve in the apse of the Panthéon, the decorated ceiling of the Odéon Theater, and the hall of distinguished citizens at the Toulouse capitol. He also provided illustrations for Augustin Thierry's Récits des temps mérovingiens ("Accounts of Merovingian Times").

Laurens was highly respected teacher at the Académie Julian, Paris, and a professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he taught André Dunoyer de Segonzac and George Barbier. He died in Paris, aged 82. Two of his sons, Paul Albert Laurens (1870–1934) and Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875–1932), both also became painters and teachers at the Académie Julian.

  • Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne - La Délivrance des emmurés de Carcassonne 1879 - Jean Paul Laurens.jpg

    The Release of the Prisoners of Carcassonne, 1879

  • Augustins - L'Agitateur du Languedoc - Jean-Paul Laurens RO 699.jpg

    The agitator of Languedoc, 1887

  • Augustins - Saint Jean Chrysostome et l'Impératrice Eudoxie - Jean Paul Laurens 2004 1 156.jpg

    Saint John Chrysostom and Empress Eudoxia, 1893

  • Hotel de ville de Tours triptyque Jeanne d'Arc 2.jpg

    one panel of Joan of Arc triptych, Hôtel de Ville, Tours, c. 1900

  • Capitole Toulouse - Grand escalier - Le Tournois - Jean-Paul Laurens.jpg

    The Tournament, 1912

Notable students

File:Jean Paul Laurens Le Pape Formose et Etienne VI 1870.jpg
In 1870, the year when the newly created Kingdom of Italy carried out the Capture of Rome and put an end to the Pope's temporal power, Laurens made this painting of the Cadaver Synod

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References

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  2. ↑ Bates at Panvertu.com Archived 12 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine accessed 29 December 2007
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Further reading

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External links

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