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François Lemoyne

François Lemoyne (1688 - 1737) was active/lived in France.  Francois Lemoyne is known for Mythology and religious figure painting, church ceiling frescoes.

The French painter François Lemoyne was born in 1688 in Paris. He received his first artistic instruction from his stepfather Robert le Vrac, who was known as "Tourniers" (1667–1752). Starting in 1701, he was a student of Louis Galloche (1670–1761) at the Académie Royale and also had some lessons from Pierre-Jacques Cazes (1676–1754), who influenced François Lemoyne‘s coloring in particular. In 1706, Lemoyne received a third-place medal. This was followed by a first-place medal in 1707. He won the Prix de Rome in 1711, but did avail himself of the subsequent visit to Rome. The artist was accepted as an Agrée in the Académie Royale in 1716 and appointed as a full member in 1718 on the basis of his work Hercules Kills Cacus"

In 1723, François Lemoyne created the ceiling fresco of The Transfiguration in the chancel of the Jacobin Church (now called the Parish Church of St. Thomas d’Aquin) in Paris.

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