Auguste-Marie Taunay

French artist

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In Latin American art: State-sponsored art and Neoclassicism
…such imports were the brothers Auguste-Marie and Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, each of whom had a separate task: Auguste-Marie created Neoclassical busts of the emperor and generals—a format from the Roman tradition—while Nicolas made Neoclassical oil paintings of Rio, with an emphasis on realistic details and the New World’s great expanse of…
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