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Anne-François-LouisJanmot, also known as Jean-Louis, was a French poet and painter in the style and content of the Nazarenes.
Born: 21 May 1814 in Lyon
Died: 01 June 1892 in Lyon
After Anne-François-Louis Janmot has received an artistic education at the Collège Royal and the École des Beaux-Art in Lyon at an early age, he wins an award for his self portrait as an 18-year-old, and moves to Paris to join Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres to continue his artistic education. After another study year in Rome, where he becomes acquainted with, among others, Hippolyte Flandrin, Janmot settles in Lyon, where he receives a professorship. From 1861, he spends about 15 years in Paris and Toulon and returns to his birthplace in the 1880s. The painter, who is very much in demand with his religious themes, also works consistently on a volume of poems, illustrated with 18 pictures, which he calls “The Poem of the Soul”. In those pictures as well as in the commissioned work for the clergy, Anne-François-Louis Janmot’s religiously transfigured style is strongly visible, reminding of the Pre-Raphaelites and Nazarenes in its symbolism and mysticism.
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