Alexandre Ubeleski

Ubeleski's Aeneas and Anchises

Alexandre Ubeleski (sometimes Ubelesqui or Ubielesqui), French painter, was born in Paris in 1649.^{[note 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.^{[note 2]}

Notes and references

1. ↑ Some sources give his date of birth as 1628.
2. ↑ Some sources give his date of death as 1715.

Sources

• This article incorporates text from the article "Ubelesqui, Alexandre" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

Further reading

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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.

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