Noël Hallé
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France
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painter, draftsman and printmaker. He was born into a family of artists, the son of Claude-Guy Hallé
Claude-Guy Hallé
Claude-Guy Hallé was a French painter. He was the son of the painter Daniel Hallé.Claude Guy Hallé won the prix de Rome in 1675 for The Transgression of Adam and Eve. He was crowned many times by the Académie royale de peinture. He was entrusted with many large works at the royal residences of...
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Hallé took the Prix de Rome
Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...
in 1736. Among his works are Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
-related The Death of Seneca
Seneca the Younger
Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero...
, Cornelia
Cornelia Africana
Cornelia Scipionis Africana was the second daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the hero of the Second Punic War, and Aemilia Paulla. She is remembered as the perfect example of a virtuous Roman woman....
, Mother of the Gracchi
Gracchi
The Gracchi brothers, Tiberius and Gaius, were Roman Plebian nobiles who both served as tribunes in 2nd century BC. They attempted to pass land reform legislation that would redistribute the major patrician landholdings among the plebeians. For this legislation and their membership in the...
and The Justice of Trajan
Justice of Trajan
The Justice of Trajan is a legendary episode in the life of Roman Emperor Trajan, based upon Dio Cassius' account : "He did not, however, as might have been expected of a warlike man, pay any less attention to the civil administration nor did he dispense justice any the less; on the contrary, he...
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