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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Natoire, Charles Joseph Creator Nationality: European; French Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1700 - 1777 Gender: M Creator Birth Place: Nîmes Creator Death Place: Castel Gandolfo Creator Name-CRT: Charles Joseph Natoire Title: Ut Pictura Poesis Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1745 Creation End Date: 1745 Creation Date: 1745/46 Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors Materials and Techniques: brush and gray and black wash, graphite, red chalk, red chalk wash, and watercolor, with traces of gouache Dimensions: Sheet: 53.2cm x 38cm Inscriptions: lower left, in brown ink: Natoire [4?][illegible] AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1998.76 Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Provenance: collection Paigon-Dijonval, cat. no. 3347 (according to Cailleux). Private Collection, Paris; [Cailleux] Context: This drawing by the French painter Charles-Joseph Natoire illustrates a famous statement written by the ancient Latin poet Horace, "Ut Pictura Poesis," ("As is painting, so is poetry"). Artists and writers from the Renaissance onward often invoked Horace's ideas about painting to stress the importance of narration in the visual arts. Painting was often described as a kind of silent poetry. In this view, the best paintings showed the heroic action of great men and women in history in the same way that classical epic poets such as Homer and Virgil wrote about them.At the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris, this idea was the basis for artistic training. The Royal Academy, founded in 1648, was the most important teaching institution forthe arts in France. One of its main goals was to teach students how to correctly draw the human figure. Natoire illustrated the Academy's method in the background of this work, where we see a group of students drawing from a posed model. In the foreground at the right is Minerva, the patron goddess of the Arts, chasing away figures representing Ignorance and Envy. Natoire's message to the viewer is that the arts will triumph if artists master the representation of the human form. AMICA ID: CMA_.1998.76 AMICA Library Year: 1999 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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