Description: Antoine Jean-Baptiste Thomas (1791–1834) was a French painter and lithographer.Thomas mentored under François-André Vincent, and later studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. Thomas lived and traveled around Italy, which inspired many of his works. He specialized in oil paintings, often depictions of Italian daily life or ancient rome. He was also commissioned to paint a number of religious works for various churches. In 1816 he won the Prix de Rome with his piece Oenone Refusing to Help the Wounded Paris. He spent two years studying art in Rome and returned to Paris in 1818. Between 1819 and 1831 he exhibited his paintings at Salons, however today he is best known for his series of lithographs, One Year in Rome and Its Environs. Thomas' style is characterized as Romanticism. A scarce and important coloured plate book on the daily life of Rome together with its architectural and grandeur in the beginning of the 19th century.The drawings were made for the book Un An à Rome et dans ses Environs (A year in Rome and its surroundings) describing and depicting the daily life in Rome as seen by Thomas during his stay between 1817 and 1818, and the reign of Pius VII. In 1816 Thomas won the great prize of Rome for painting and was therefore welcomed at the French Academy in Rome from November 1816 to December 1818. He died in Paris in 1833 or in 1834.
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: Italian
Topic: Fine Arts
Subject: Art & Photography
Year Printed: 1978
