Napoleon Bourassa (October 21st 1827 - August 27th 1916) was an architect, a painter and a writer Québécois.
Biography
Originating in Acadie, it studies eleven years at the Sulpiciens with the College of Montreal. In 1848, it makes a training course in Droit with Norbert Dumas but chooses then the Peinture with Theophilus Hamel of 1850 with 1852.
After having travelled in the European cities of Paris, Rome and Florence to walk on with the painter Johann Friedrich Overbeck, he marries Azélie Papineau, girl of Louis-Joseph Papineau. He installs his workshop of art to Montebello in Outaouais. His wife gives him five children and dies in 1869.
Napoleon Bourassa founds and directs the Canadian Revue and he becomes the vice-president of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptist of Montreal. He lives then on 430 rue Bonsecours.
Bourassa had famous apprentices, of which Louis-Philippe Hébert, François-Edouard Meloche and Olindo Gratton. It also carved the bust of his Papineau father-in-law.
It in particular built the Chapelle Notre-Dame de Lourdes of Montreal as well as the vault of the Institut Nazareth. One of its most recognized paintings is called the Apothéose of Christophe Colomb .
In 1880, it founds the Musée of the fine arts of Canada with its fellow-members artists. He is consulted in 1883 for the construction of the legislative Assemblée of Quebec. He dies the August 27th 1916 with Lachenaie.
He is the brother of François Bourassa and father of Henri Bourassa, politician. His/her Adine daughter publishes her correspondences in 1929. The Napoleon-Bourassa Funds of the Université of Ottawa was created in its honor.
Architectural works
- Convent of Dominican of Saint-Hyacinthe
- Vault of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart
- Vault Our-Lady-of-Doors
- Vault of the Manor of Louis-Joseph Papienau
- Church of Fall Rivetting
- Church of Montebello
- Church of Saint-Hugues
- Church of Saint-Bear
- Restoration of the Cathedral of Saint-Hyacinthe
Paintings
- Self-portrait with its wife
- Apotheosis of Christophe Colomb
Literary works
- Jacques and Marie , Historical novel published in 1866
- Our grand' mothers , 1887
- literary Mixtures , 1889
- Letters of a Canadian artist , 1929
External bond
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Biography of the biographical Dictionary of Canada in line
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