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Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique
     
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique
(1780-1867) a French painter and leader of the neoclassical school (=artists who copied the style of ancient Greece and Rome). He is famous for his portraits (=paintings of real people) and for his nudes (=paintings of people, mostly women, without clothes)
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