Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, & Romanticism

Ingres is a painter hailing from France who worked under Jaques-Louis David and is famous for his neoclassical work. Ingres hated romantic artists with a passion and made his style to be the antithesis of their work- using purity of colour, distorted proportions, extreme levels of realism, and stiff portraits. His warping of anatomy and figures was inspired by the Mannerism movement (late renaissance).

His piece titled “Napoleon I on Imperial throne”  was controversial and critics deemed him “Gothic”, a title it would take him years to get out from under.