Gustave Moreau

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French person Symbolist artist human painter

Gustave Moreau was a 19th-century French Symbolist painter renowned for his richly detailed, dreamlike depictions of mythological and biblical subjects.

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French person → Symbolist artist → human → painter →
artStyle	Romantic-influenced → Symbolist →
burialPlace	Cimetière de Montmartre →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateOfBirth	1826-04-06 →
dateOfDeath	1898-04-18 →
employer	École des Beaux-Arts →
familyName	Moreau →
fieldOfWork	drawing → painting →
genre	history painting → mythological painting → religious painting →
givenName	Gustave →
hasPartInCollection	Musée Gustave Moreau →
influenced	Georges Rouault → Henri Matisse →
influencedBy	Byzantine art → Eugène Delacroix → Italian Renaissance art → Théodore Chassériau →
languageOfWorkOrName	French →
movement	Symbolism →
name	Gustave Moreau →
nationality	French →
notableFor	biblical subjects → mythological subjects →
notableWork	Galatea → Hesiod and the Muses → Jupiter and Semele → Oedipus and the Sphinx → Orpheus → Salome Dancing before Herod → The Apparition → The Young Man and Death →
notedFor	dreamlike imagery → richly detailed compositions →
occupation	draftsman → painter → teacher →
placeOfBirth	France → Paris →
placeOfDeath	France → Paris →
positionHeld	professor at École des Beaux-Arts →
residence	Paris →
sexOrGender	male →
workLocation	Paris →

Referenced by (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Fernand Khnopff → Henri Matisse → Odilon Redon → The Dance (Matisse) → The Joy of Life →	influencedBy
Symbolism →	hasKeyFigure
Symbolist movement in art →	hasNotableArtist
Gustave Moreau →	name
Cimetière de Montmartre →	notableBurial
Henri Matisse →	studiedUnder