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Joseph-Marie Vien (June 18, 1716 – March 27, 1809), French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
, was born at Montpellier
Montpellier

Montpellier is a city in the south of France. It is the capital of the Languedoc-Roussillon Regions of France, as well as the H?rault Departments of France....
.

Protected by Comte de Caylus, he entered at an early age the studio of Natoire
Charles-Joseph Natoire

Charles-Joseph Natoire was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of Fran?ois Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751-1775....
, and obtained the grand prix in 1745. He used his time at Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
 in applying to the study of nature and the development of his own powers all that he gleaned from the masterpieces around him; but his tendencies were so foreign to the reigning taste that on his return to Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 he owed his admission to the academy for his picture "Daedalus and Icarus" (Louvre
Louvre

The Louvre Museum , located in Paris, is a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Rive Droite of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement of Paris ....
) solely to the indignant protests of François Boucher
François Boucher

Fran?ois Boucher was a France Painting, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture....
.

When in 1776, at the height of his established reputation, he became director of the school of France at Rome, he took Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential France painter in the Neoclassicism style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, chiming with the moral climate of the final years of th...
 with him amongst his pupils.






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Joseph-Marie Vien (June 18, 1716 – March 27, 1809), French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
, was born at Montpellier
Montpellier

Montpellier is a city in the south of France. It is the capital of the Languedoc-Roussillon Regions of France, as well as the H?rault Departments of France....
.

Protected by Comte de Caylus, he entered at an early age the studio of Natoire
Charles-Joseph Natoire

Charles-Joseph Natoire was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of Fran?ois Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751-1775....
, and obtained the grand prix in 1745. He used his time at Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
 in applying to the study of nature and the development of his own powers all that he gleaned from the masterpieces around him; but his tendencies were so foreign to the reigning taste that on his return to Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 he owed his admission to the academy for his picture "Daedalus and Icarus" (Louvre
Louvre

The Louvre Museum , located in Paris, is a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Rive Droite of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement of Paris ....
) solely to the indignant protests of François Boucher
François Boucher

Fran?ois Boucher was a France Painting, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture....
.

When in 1776, at the height of his established reputation, he became director of the school of France at Rome, he took Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential France painter in the Neoclassicism style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, chiming with the moral climate of the final years of th...
 with him amongst his pupils. After his return, five years later, his fortunes were wrecked by the French Revolution
French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudalism for the aristocracy and Roman Catholic Church clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Age of Enlightenment principles of cit...
; but he undauntedly set to work, and at the age of eighty (1796) carried off the prize in an open government competition. Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon I of France

Napoleon Bonaparte later known as Emperor Napoleon I, was a military and political leader of France whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century....
 acknowledged his merit by making him a senator.

Joseph-Marie Vien died in Paris, and was buried in the crypt of the Panthéon
Pantheon

Pantheon may refer to:*Pantheon , a word used to describe the set of gods of a particular religion, mythology, or fictional universe* A temple, dedicated to all gods, or to all the gods of a given religion...
 ( to date, the only painter so honored). He left behind him many other brilliant pupils, amongst whom were François-André Vincent
François-André Vincent

Fran?ois-Andr? Vincent was a France neoclassicism painter.He was the son of the miniaturist Fran?ois-Elie Vincent and studied under Joseph-Marie Vien....
, Jean-Baptiste Regnault
Jean-Baptiste Regnault

Jean-Baptiste Regnault was a France Painting.Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to Italy by M....
, Joseph-Benoît Suvée
Joseph-Benoît Suvée

Joseph-Beno?t Suv?e was a Belgian painter strongly influenced by French neo-classicism.Initially a pupil of Matthias de Visch, he came to France aged 19 and became a pupil of Jean-Jacques Bachelier....
, Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours
Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours

Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours was a Switzerland Painting.Jean-Pierre began studying with his father Jacques who was himself a renown painter. He continued his studies in Paris, in 1769, with Joseph-Marie Vien....
, François Guillaume Menageot, Jean-Joseph Taillasson
Jean-Joseph Taillasson

[Image:VirgilAeneidVI.jpg|thumb|Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia, by Jean-Joseph Taillasson, 1787, an early Neoclassicism painting Jean-Joseph Taillasson was a French history painter and portraitist, draftsman and art critic, who matured his talent in the Paris ateliers of Joseph-Marie Vien and Nicolas Bernard L?pici? a...
 and others of high merit; nor should the name of his wife, Marie-Thérèse Reboul (1728-1805), herself a member of the academy, be omitted from this list. Their son, Marie Joseph, born in 1761, also distinguished himself as a painter.

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He features as a character in Balzac's Sarrasine
Sarrasine

Sarrasine is a novella written by Honor? de Balzac. It was published in 1830 , and is part of his La Com?die Humaine.Commentary ...
 (subject of S/Z
S/Z

S/Z, published in 1970, is Roland Barthes's structuralism of "Sarrasine", the short story by Honor? de Balzac. Barthes methodically moves through the text of the story, denoting where and how different codes of meaning function....
 by Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes was a France literary theory, philosopher, critic, and Semiotics. Barthes's work extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism and post-structuralism....
).

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