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Dopo l'ultima mostra monografica del 1933, nel 2016 il Louvre - in collaborazione con la National Gallery di Washington - ha celebrato l'artista con la rassegna Hubert Robert, 1733-1808. Un peintre visionnaire, esponendo oltre 140, tra i suoi dipinti, disegni e stampe.
Hubert Robert (French pronunciation: [ybɛʁ ʁɔbɛʁ]; 22 May 1733 – 15 April 1808) was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.
Hubert Robert was a landscape painter of the Neoclassical style, known for his austere and dramatic portraits. Learn about his life, works, and the portrait by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, a fellow artist and friend.
- French
- May 22, 1733
- Paris, France
- April 15, 1808
In occasione di un viaggio a Napoli (1760), visitò gli scavi di Ercolano e Pompei. Tornato in patria, fu ammesso all'Accademia con il Capriccio architettonico con il Pantheon e il Porto di Ripetta (1766, Parigi, École supérieure des beaux-arts).
9 mar 2016 · Hubert Robert non fu solo «un magnifico mistificatore» con i suoi capricci architettonici di rovine romane e i paesaggi dove si mescolano vero e falso, ricordo e immaginazione, sostiene Guillaume Farault, conservatore al dipartimento delle pitture del Louvre.
18 mag 2024 · Hubert Robert (born May 22, 1733, Paris, France—died April 15, 1808, Paris) was a French landscape painter sometimes called Robert des Ruines because of his many romantic representations of Roman ruins set in idealized surroundings.
30 mag 2016 · A chronicler of Paris and of the stormy history that rocked the late 18th century, he ended his distinguished career as a thoughtful and committed curator of the brand new Muséum Central des Arts, the future Musée du Louvre. The work of this visionary artist was both eclectic and deeply coherent.
