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The Lyon painter Louis Janmot (1814-1892), student of Ingres and admirer of Delacroix, is at the crossroads of several artistic movements of the 19th century .
The Poem of the Soul, to which he devoted nearly half a century, is a work that is both pictorial and literary. Through two...
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FRENCH LANGUAGE
The Lyon painter Louis Janmot (1814-1892), student of Ingres and admirer of Delacroix, is at the crossroads of several artistic movements of the 19th century .
The Poem of the Soul, to which he devoted nearly half a century, is a work that is both pictorial and literary. Through two cycles of 18 paintings, 16 drawings and 34 poems, he retraces the initiatory journey of a soul incarnated as a young man on earth, his journey through temptations and suffering, until the reunion with his beloved to the sky.
The painter-poet summons Fra Angelico, Dante, Blake, the Nazarenes and even the Pre-Raphaelites to produce an astonishing, mysterious and romantic work, a true spiritual epic in which Baudelaire noted "an infinite and difficult to describe charm, [...] an unconscious mysticity and childish.
Exhibition "Louis Janmot. The Poem of the Soul" presented from September 12, 2023 to January 7, 2024 by the Public Establishment of the Orsay and Orangerie Museums - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Paris with the scientific collaboration and exceptional loans from the Musée des Fine Arts of Lyon.
French language
192 pages / 187 illustrations
Coédition Musée d'Orsay / In Fine éditions d'art
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