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Francesco Hayez
Francesco Hayez was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and portraits.
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culture · Italian painter (1791–1882) · painter · photographer · lithographer · graphic artist · engraver · also Francesco Hayez, Ajez, Hayez, Hayes, francesco hayer, francesco hayez
Born 10 February 1791 · Died 10 February 1881 · Q223725
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1881· 2 entries
Died 1881-02-10.
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A Vase of Flowers at the Window of the Harem (1881; Milan, Brera), a simple and joyful homage to the art of painting
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1869· 1 entry
Hayez had begun dictating his memoirs, which provide the main source of information on his life
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1867· 1 entry
And presented to the Academies of Milan and Venice: Marin Faliero Led to his Death (Milan, Brera) and Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (Venice, Ca’ Pesaro)
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1855· 1 entry
But he was well received on his second trip to Munich in 1858
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1850· 1 entry
Career landmark: director (1850–1882).
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1841· 1 entry
Hailed Hayez as a great patriotic painter
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1838· 2 entries
Ferdinand I of Austria, in Milan for his coronation, unveiled the fresco by Hayez in the Royal Palace, representing the Allegory of the Political Order of Ferdinand I of Austria (destr
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Having started work on the painting, he found a patron in the person of King Charles Albert of Sardinia, who was, however, never to see its completion when it was hung (1850) in the Hall of the Bodyguards in the Royal Pa
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1833· 1 entry
When his fame was at its peak, he began work on a gigantic canvas intended to be his greatest work: Thirst Suffered by the First Crusaders beneath the Walls of Jerusalem, inspired by a variety of historical and literary
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1823· 1 entry
And embarked on a highly successful career as a history painter and portraitist, showing his works almost every year at the annual exhibitions at the Brera
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1821· 1 entry
It was admired by Stendhal, who declared Hayez to be the greatest Italian painter of the day
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1820· 1 entry
To the Brera exhibition in Milan, where it was received with great acclaim and acquired by Giorgio Pallavicino Trivulzio
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1817· 1 entry
Hayez was able to devote himself to works better suited to his abilities, such as the portrait of the Cicognara Family (Venice, priv
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1815· 1 entry
After spending time at the court of Joachim Murat in Naples, where he began his large historical picture Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous (1814–1816; Naples, Museo di Capodimonte)
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1813· 1 entry
Was commissioned by Canova in 1816 to paint a number of fresco lunettes in the Chiaramonti corridor in the new wing of the Vatican Museums
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1812· 1 entry
Sent his painting Laokoon (Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera) to the competition run by the Brera Academy, where he tied for the first prize with Antonio De Antoni (fl
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1811· 1 entry
Entered a competition set by the Accademia of Naples, to which he travelled in the company of his friend the sculptor Rinaldo Rinaldi
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1809· 1 entry
Hayez won a scholarship to study at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome and left Venice in October, travelling south via Rovigo, Bologna, Florence (where he met the painters Pietro Benvenuti, Giuseppe Bezzuoli and Francesc
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1808· 1 entry
Was finally able to enter the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, recently modernized in its teaching methods by Leopoldo Cicognara, who was to remain an important adviser and patron for Hayez
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1807· 1 entry
Hayez produced a competent Portrait of the Artist’s Family (Treviso, Museo Luigi Bailo)
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1803· 1 entry
Attended life drawing classes at the old Accademia di Pittura e Scultura in the Fonteghetto della Farina, and between 1802 and 1806 he studied the use of colour in classes run by the painter from Bergamo, Lattanzio Qu
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1791· 1 entry
Born 1791-02-10.
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