Jean-Léon Gérôme

Gérôme finishes like a photograph — Roman arenas and Orientalist courtyards under hard sunlight, glassy surfaces, and a theatrical moment frozen a second before or after the violence.

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) was a painter from France, associated with Academic art.

More Academic art painters: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Hans Makart, Alexandre Cabanel, Frederic Leighton.

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