Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)

• Was a French Neoclassical painter.
• Ingres devoted much of his attention to the training of the painting students, as he was later to do at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
• He re-organized the Academy, increased the size of the library, added many molds of classical statues to the Academy collection, and assisted the students in getting public commissions in both Rome and Paris.
• He traveled to Orvieto (1835), Siena (1835), and to Ravenna and Urbino to study the paleochristian mosaics, medieval murals and Renaissance art.
• He devoted considerable attention to music, one of the subjects of the academy; he welcomed Franz Liszt and Fanny Mendelssohn.
• He formed a long friendship with Liszt.
• He joined the music students and his friend Niccolò Paganini in playing Beethoven's violin works.
• When Stendhal visited the Academy and disparaged Beethoven, Ingres turned to the doorman, indicated Stendhal, and told him, "If this gentleman ever calls again, I am not here."
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