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Jean-Paul Laurens (Fourquevaux 28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921 Paris), was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. He was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida. Strongly anti-clerical and republican, his work was often on historical and religious themes, through which he sought to convey a message of opposition to monarchical and clerical oppression. His erudition and technical mastery were much admired in his time, but in later years his highly realistic technique, coupled to a theatrical ''mise-en-scène'', came to be regarded by some art-historians as overly didactic. More recently, however, his work has been re-evaluated as an important and original renewal of history painting, a genre of painting that was in decline during Laurens' lifetime. Laurens was commissioned to paint numerous public works by the French Third Republic, including the steel vault of the Paris City Hall, the monumental series on the life of Saint Genevieve in the apse of the Panthéon, the decorated ceiling of the Odéon Theater, and the hall of distinguished citizens at the Toulouse capitol. He also provided illustrations for Augustin Thierry's ''Récits des temps mérovingiens'' ("Accounts of Merovingian Times"). Laurens was highly respected teacher at the Académie Julian, Paris, and a professor at the ''École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts'' in Paris, where he taught André Dunoyer de Segonzac and George Barbier. Two of his sons, Paul Albert Laurens (1870–1934) and Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875–1932), both also became painters and teachers at the Académie Julian. ==Notable students== * Marjorie Bates〔(Bates at Panvertu.com ) accessed 29 December 2007〕 * Georges Dufrénoy * Sears Gallagher * Thomas Cooper Gotch * Cecilia Cutescu-Storck * Christian Herter of Herter Brothers * A. Y. Jackson * Gustave Louis Jaulmes * Alfred Garth Jones * Leon Kroll * Paul Sibra * René Schützenberger * Karl Yens 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean-Paul Laurens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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