Assembly of the gods antoine coypel biography
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English: Assembly of Gods
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Antoine Coypel (French, ca. 1661 – 1722), Assembly set in motion the Gods, 1702, Storm sketch care about canvas, 37 3⁄8 x 76 3⁄4 in., Musée des Beaux‑Arts d’Angers, Angers, France, 38 J. 1881
© RMN-Grand Palais/Benoît Touchard/Mathieu Rabeau
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| Democritus, 1692, Antoine Coypel. Democritus was a Greek philosopher of the 4th-century BC, who further developed the atomic theory originated by his teacher, Leucippus, that explained natural phenomena in terms of the arrangement and rearrangement of atoms moving in a void. |
In studying the many artists who have lived and worked around the world during the past thousand years or so, it has always amazed me that quite a number of them have risen to the top of their profession during their lifetime only to be all but forgotten by everyone except art history professors, a few wealthy collectors, and museum curators. Those three groups I'm sure make up less than one tenth of one percent of the total population. There are as many reasons for this as there are forgotten artists, but one they all seem to have in common is that they painted in a style popular at the time, but which has since lost favor. It makes me wonder if some of today's most famous artist are not destined for the same historic loneliness, their work stored away in museum vaults, their names and their paintings seldom to be seen again.
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