Free downloadable public domain paintings in the Academic Art style. Academic art, or Academicism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism.
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! After losing three of his five children to health issues, as well as his wife, Nelly Monchablon, Bouguereau felt the pain of grief and translated it into many paintings, like Pieta. In Compassion!, the artist also...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau concluded the oil painting entitled Sainte Famille, translated as The Holy Family, in the year 1863 and was exhibited in the Paris Salon shortly after. Four years later, the artwork was...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This life-size painting, a serene vision of angels serenading the sleeping Jesus in the arms of a graceful young Mary, is one of the most important works by Bouguereau in the United States. Bouguereau's...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Some might say this image—named Whisperings of Love—is a depiction of Cupid and a young girl. However, Bouguereau was a French Catholic, studied for the priesthood, and made many Catholic themed images. Therefore, this...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The lamb is a commonly used symbol of innocence's nature. In Christianity, for example, Jesus is referred to as the "Lamb of God", thus emphasizing his sinless nature. Other symbols of innocence...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The star-haloed Virgin holds the infant Jesus in her arms. She is standing in front of a throne with Byzantine motifs, inlaid with colored stones. With his legs curled up, the child raises his arms, making...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! All Souls' Day, also known as the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed and the Day of the Dead, is a day of prayer and remembrance for the souls of those who have died, which...
