Biography of Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas was born in a family of bankers. When his mother died in 1847, his father, Auguste de Gas, and grandfather, Hilaire de Gas, took care of him and they were most influental in his life. Eventhough he was interested in paining he began to study law, but he quit his studies in 1853. He mostly visited Felix Joseph Barrias’s studio and spent his time copying Renaissance works. In 1854-1859 he made several trips to Italy, sometimes he was just visiting his relatives, or he was studying from the Old Masters. He started to paint historical pictures and realistic portraits of his relatives. By 1860 Degas had drawn over 700 copies of other works, most of the work was early Italian Renaissance and French classical art. The most important historical work of the period was Spartan Girls Challenging Boys(c.1860-
In the late 1860s Degas painted jockeys and race horses: Race Horses(c.1866-68), Carriage at the Races (1869). From 1870 he started to paint ballet subjects: Dance Class (1871), Dancing Examination (1874), The Star (1876-77). He painted those because they were easier to sell. The painting The Suffering of the City of New Orleans (1865) was Degas's first picture that debut in 1865 in an exibition. The picture got not that much attention as the other works, but it was fine. In the picture you could see " A medieval landscape setting and naked women bodies were used to symbolize the sufferings of the American city of New Orleans, which was occupied by Union troops in 1862 in the course of the Civil War." The Suffering Of the City of New Orleans was his last historical painting. When the Civil War in America
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