Anne François Louis Janmot
AnneFrançoisLouis Janmot (May 21, 1814June 1, 1892) was a French painter and poet. He was born in Lyon and studied art at the Ecole des BeauxArts in Lyon, beginning in 1831. In 1833 he went to Paris. There, and later in Rome, he studied under Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Like JeanHippolyte Flandrin, another painter from Lyon and student of Ingres, Janmot carried out many commissions for church decorations. In his paintings the immaculate finish of Ingres was combined with a mysticism that has parallels in the work of his contemporaries the Nazarenes and the His most significant work, a cycle of 18 paintings and 16 drawings, with verse, called La Poème de l âme, occupied him for 40 years.
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