1. Anne-Francois-Louis Janmot was a French painter and poet.
12 Facts About Louis Janmot
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Louis Janmot was extremely moved by the death of his brother in 1823 and his sisters in 1829.
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Louis Janmot became a student at the Royal College of Lyon where he met Frederic Ozanam and other followers of his philosophy professor, Abbe Noirot.
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In 1856, Louis Janmot obtained a commission to paint a fresco representing the Last Supper for the church of St Polycarp.
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Louis Janmot was then appointed professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
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Louis Janmot moved to Paris in 1861 after having been promised a commission for the Church of St Augustine, but this project was abandoned three years later.
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In experiencing significant family and financial problems, Louis Janmot accepted a professorship at the Dominican School of Arcueil.
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Louis Janmot finished the second part of the Poem of the Soul that the patron and former industrial Felix Thiollier was willing to publish.
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In 1885, Louis Janmot married a former student, Antoinette Currat, and returned to Lyon.
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Louis Janmot made charcoal drawings on the theme of the underworld, which can be regarded as a kind of continuation of the Poem of the Soul, including Purgatory and The End of Time.
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Louis Janmot died five years later at the age of 78.
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Louis Janmot has been seen as a transitional figure between Romanticism and Symbolism, prefiguring the French part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; his work was admired by Puvis de Chavannes, Odilon Redon, and Maurice Denis.