Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was a 19th-century French painter renowned for his large-scale, dreamlike murals and his influential role in the development of Symbolist art.

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instanceOf French painter
human
painter
centuryOfActivity 19th century
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1824-12-14
dateOfDeath 1898-10-24
educatedAt Lycée Henri-IV
familyName Puvis de Chavannes
fieldOfWork Symbolist art
mural painting
genre allegorical painting
mural painting
givenName Pierre
influenced Georges Seurat
Paul Gauguin
Symbolist movement in art
surface form: Symbolist painters

Vincent van Gogh
influencedBy Eugène Delacroix
Théodore Chassériau
languageOfWorkOrName French
memberOf Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
movement Academic art
Post-Impressionism
Symbolism
name Pierre Puvis de Chavannes self-link
nationality French
notableFor influence on Symbolist art
large-scale murals
notableWork Ave Picardia Nutrix
Charity
Decoration of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris
Decoration of the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
Decoration of the Panthéon, Paris
Decoration of the Sorbonne, Paris
Hope
Inter Artes et Naturam
Ludus pro patria
Summer
The Poor Fisherman
The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses
Winter
occupation painter
placeOfBirth France
Lyon
placeOfDeath France
Paris
positionHeld president of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
sexOrGender male
studiedUnder Eugène Delacroix
Thomas Couture NERFINISHED
style austere classicism
dreamlike

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Symbolism hasKeyFigure Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Symbolist movement in art hasNotableArtist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes name Pierre Puvis de Chavannes self-link