Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury

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Galileo before the Holy Office , by Robert-Fleury

Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797 - 1890), French painter, was born at Cologne.

He was sent by his family to Paris, and after travelling in Italy returned to France and made his first appearance at the Salon in 1824; his reputation, however, was not established until three years later, when he exhibited Tasso at the Convent of Saint Onophrius.

Endowed with a vigorous original talent, and with a vivid imagination, especially for the tragic incidents of history, he soon rose to fame, and in 1850 succeeded François Granet as member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 1855 he was appointed professor and in 1863 director of the École des Beaux-Arts, and in the following year he went to Rome as director of the French Academy in that city.

Among his chief works are:

A Reading at Mme. de Sévigné's, Scene of St Bartholomew, Henry IV. taken to the Louvre after his Assassination (1836)
Triumphal Entry of Clovis at Tours (1838), at the Versailles Museum
Le Colloque de Poissy (1840), at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris
The Children of Louis XVI. in the Temple (1840)
Marino Faliero
An Autodafé
Galileo before the Holy Office, at the Luxembourg Museum
Christopher Columbus received by the Spanish Court (1847), at the same gallery
The Last Moments of Montaigne (1853); and Charles V. in the Monastery of Yuste (1857).

His son, Tony Robert-Fleury, was also a painter.

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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

Persondata
NAME	Robert-Fleury, Joseph Nicolas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Robert-Fleury, Joseph;Robert-Fleury, Joseph-Nicolas;Fleury, Joseph Nicolas
SHORT DESCRIPTION	french painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne, Germany
DATE OF DEATH	May 5, 1890
PLACE OF DEATH	Paris