“I know I’m not supposed to because it’s problematic, but I really love Gérôme’s work,” a visitor said sheepishly at the entrance of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha ahead of a guided ...

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In the late 19th century, “there was not a house in France that did not have a print by Jean-Léon Gérôme,” said Katharine Albritton in The Art Newspaper. Yet “while Gérôme was popular in his time,” ...

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The French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme was fascinated by Egypt and the Middle East, and the paintings he produced of the region marry a precise academic realism with a hefty dose of Orientalist fantasy.

Qatar Museums (QM) announced Wednesday a thought-provoking exhibition on the art and legacy of the French painter and sculptor Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904), marking the 200th anniversary of the artist ...

Artibus et Historiae, Vol. 30, No. 59 (2009), pp. 145-158 (14 pages) The article explores the importance of different art media in Jean-Léon Gerôme's work by interrogating the connections between ...

Did "kitsch" as we understand it today — ingratiating, death-denying sentimentality and tendentiousness — exist in the late 19th century? Sure. It was born then. In art, it went by names like ...

Born on May 11, 1824, in Vesoul, France, Jean-Léon Gérôme was the son of Pierre Gérôme, a goldsmith, and Mélanie Vuillemot, daughter of a merchant. From an early age, he showed a strong inclination ...