Art Movement: Academic Art, Neoclassicism, Realism (classical tradition)

Artist

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau stands as the supreme master of 19th-century Academic painting and one of the most technically accomplished artists in the entire history of Western art. No painter before or since achieved such absolute control over the human figure, flesh tones, anatomical precision, and polished finish. To admirers, Bouguereau represented perfection; to critics, he became…