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Francesco Hayez


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Aristotle


Bath of the Nymphs


Bath of the Nymphs , detail


Bather

Bather viewed from behind


Bathsheba Bathing


Penitent Mary Magdalene


The windows of the harem


The Kiss


The seventh crusade against Jerusalem


The death of the Doge Marin Faliero


The liberation Vittore Pisani 's out of prison


The two Foscari


The Refugees Of Parga


The Refugees Of Parga , detail


The patient ( Portrait of Carolina Zucchi )


The new favorite ( Harem Scene )


The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem


The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem , detail


The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem , detail


Ephraim


Family Portrait


Painting Series " Sicilian evenings ," scene


Painting Series " Sicilian evenings ," Scene 3


Reclining Odalisque


Melancholy thought


Odalisque


Odalisque with book


Ulysses at the court of Alcinous


Portrait of Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini


Portrait of Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini


Portrait of Antonietta Tarsis Basilico


Portrait of Antonietta Vitali Sola

Portrait of the Ballerina Carlotta Chabert as Venus


Portrait of Cristina di Trivulzio Belgiojoso


Portrait of Stampa di Sonico family


Portrait of Felicina Caglio Perego di Cremnago


Portrait of Matilde Juva - Branca


Portrait of the Princess di Sant ' Antimo


Portrait of Teresa Borri Stampa Manzoni


Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni


Portrait of Camillo Benso Cavour


Portrait of Count Baglioni


Portrait of Count Ninni


Portrait of Don Giulio Vigoni as a child


Portrait of Giocchino Rossini


Portrait of Giuseppe Roberti


Portrait of Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria


Portrait of Massimo d ' Azeglio


Portrait of Pompeo Marchesi


Portrait of a Venetian Woman

Rinaldo and Armida


Rinaldo and Armida , detail


Romeo and Juliet


Back view of a bather


Ruth

Samson and the Lion

Self Portrait with 69 years


Self Portrait with 88 years


Venetian women


Female Nude


Meeting of Jacob and Esau


Meeting of Jacob and Esau , detail


Meeting of Jacob and Esau , detail

The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem

Francesco Hayez (February 10, 1791 – December 21, 1882) was an Italian painter, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits.

Biography

Hayez came from a relatively poor family from Venice. His father was of French origin while his mother, Chiara Torcella, was from Murano. The child Francesco, youngest of five sons, was brought up by his mother's sister, who had married Giovanni Binasco, a well-off shipowner and collector of art. From childhood he showed a predisposition for drawing, so his uncle apprenticed him to an art restorer. Later he became a student of the painter Francisco Magiotto with whom he continued his studies for three years. He was admitted to the painting course of the New Academy of Fine Arts in 1806, where he studied under Teodoro Matteini. In 1809 he won a competition from the Academy of Venice for one year of study at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He remained in Rome until 1814, then moved to Naples where he was commissioned by Joachim Murat to paint a major work depicting Ulysses at the court of Alcinous. In the mid 1830s he attended the "Salotto Maffei" salon in Milan, hosted by Clara Maffei (whose portrait Hayez painted for her husband), and he was still in Milan in 1850 when he was appointed director of the Academy of Brera there.

Typically for his age, his paintings contain implicit stories and frequently draw on biblical or literary narratives. Also of his time is the tendency to exploit sensuality with only the faintest overlay of a literary or artistic veil. His Mary Magdalene (illustrated below) is supposedly 'penitent', but her representation seems painted deliberately to bring out her erotic past far more than her penitence. His Susannah does not even bother with any 'elders', such is the emphasis on female nudity. In this, of course, he is not alone: a range of Renaissance and Baroque artists had done much the same. Hayez is the far end of the wealth and power of this tradition.

Assessment of the career of Hayez is complicated by the fact that he often did not sign or date his works. Often the date indicated from the evidence is that at which the work was acquired or sold, not of its creation. Moreover he often painted the same compositions several times with minimal variations, or even with no variation. His early works show the influence of Ingres and the Nazarene movement. His later work participates in the Classical revival.

Selected works

Notable works include:

Petro Rosso Imprisoned by the Scaligeri (c. 1820)
A series on the Sicilian Vespers (1821-1846)
Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem (c. 1867)
Portrait of Marin Faliero (1867)
Vase of flowers on the window of a harem (c. 1881)
The Kiss (1859) - Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

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