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"title": "A Painting in Focus: Jean-Bernard Restout's Sleep and the French Royal Academy",
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"title": "Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance",
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"description": "Michelangelo\u2019s masterful rendering of the male nude set the standard for many generations of artists studying in academies across Europe. Life drawings (made from nude models) became so essential to an artist\u2019s training at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris (founded in 1648 by Louis XIV) that finished drawings like these were commonly called academies.
Louis de Boullogne served as a professor of life drawing at the Royal Academy between 1694 and 1715. This work reflects the common practice of drawing from two models, which allowed artists to explore a narrative. Here the figures resemble a wounded warrior and his companion.",
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"citation": "Foster, Carter E. \"Jean-Bernard Restout's \"Sleep: Figure Study\": Painting and Drawing from Life at the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.\" Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 3 (1998): 48-85.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 54, Reproduced: fig. 11, p. 54",
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"citation": "Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
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