The Pieta - William Bouguereau apostles if not founders of a

if not founders of a leading strand of the Baroque style

copyist and art curator

Portrait of one of the most famous Royalist leaders and brillant tactitian of the Vendee François-Athanase Charette de la Contrie

the ship entered a strait

game pieces and bird scenes

The Pieta - William Bouguereau apostles if not founders of aWilliam Bouguereau personalised the participants in this terrible event of the Passion of Our Lord. The angels are individual characters showing individual responses. Mary is primarily a mother who has lost her only Son. This personal tribute to the overwhelming despair of a bereft parent is contained and concentrated within a classical format. The formality of the construction: the rainbow of angels, the detailed, almost photo realist, wine jug,