He rejected the influence of any artist after the 16th-century Italian painter Raphael and vigorously defended his preference for classical art. He was to remain in Paris for the rest of his life, except for the period 1834-41, when he was director of the French Academy in Rome. Ingres also executed commissions for portraits, in which his meticulous method of painting captured details and textures with astounding verisimilitude. The polemical distinction between romantic and neoclassic, which Ingres himself did much to enforce, cannot be applied to his work dogmatically. The nonclassical enthusiasms of his time are reflected in his taste for Eastern subjects and historical romances.
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