Alexandre Ubeleski

Ubeleski's Aeneas and Anchises

Alexandre Ubeleski (sometimes Ubelesqui or Ubielesqui), French painter, was born in Paris in 1649.^{[lower-alpha 1]} He was a pupil of Charles Lebrun, and completed his studies in Rome, where he became a member of the Academy, and where he painted the dome of a chapel in Santa Maria in Transpontina.

Danse d'une nymphe et d'un satyre, Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts

On his return to France he was patronized by the Court, became a member of the French Academy in 1682, and Professor in 1695. He died in Paris, April 21, 1718.^{[lower-alpha 2]}

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1889). "Ubelesqui, Alexandre". In Armstrong, Sir Walter; Graves, Robert Edmund. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (L–Z). II (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. 

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• Barbara Hryszko, « Alexandre Ubeleski (Ubelesqui): The Œuvre of the Painter and the Definition of his Style », dans Artibus et Historiae. An Art Anthology, vol. 71, 2015, pp. 226–280.

• Barbara Hryszko, « Echa doktryny potrydenckiej w twórczości Aleksandra Ubeleskiego [The Echoes of the Doctrine of the Council of Trent in the Art of Alexandre Ubelski] », dans « Sztuka po Trydencie [Art after Trent] », ed. Kazimierz Kuczman, Andrzej Witko, (Studia de Arte Moderna, vol. 1), Kraków 2014, pp. 179–192, fig. 94-98.

• Barbara Hryszko, « Podróż artystyczna Aleksandra Ubeleskiego z Paryża do Rzymu [Aleksander Ubeleski’s Artistic Journey from Paris to Rome] », dans Barok. Historia, literatura, sztuka, vol. XX, (40), 2013, pp. 47–58.

https://ignatianum1.academia.edu/BarbaraHryszko

Rosenberg, Pierre (1990). "Un émule polonais de Le Brun: Alexandre Ubelesqui". Artibus et Historiae (in French). 11 (22): 163–187. JSTOR 1483404.