2. Gustave Moreau
Moreau was born in Paris. His father, Louis Jean Marie Moreau, was an architect, who recognized his talent. His mother was Adele Pauline des Moutiers. Moreau studied under François-Édouard Picot and became a friend of Théodore Chassériau, whose work strongly influenced his own. Moreau main emphasis was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures.
(6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898)

3. The heir of Romanticism and an admirer of the Italian masters of the Quattrocento, Gustave Moreau is the embodiment of Symbolism. He defined his art as a "passionate silence" and transcribed in it obsessions and oneiric themes which made him one of the great masters of sexual Symbolism. He seized upon the personage of Salome and made her one of the main themes of his work, if not indeed the most important. In his many variations on this theme, he portrayed Woman as both a seductress and an innocent.

4. During his lifetime, Moreau produced more than 8,000 paintings, watercolors and drawings, many of which are on display in Paris' Musée national Gustave Moreau. The museum is in his former workshop, and began operation in André Breton famously used to "haunt" the museum and regarded Moreau as a precursor of Surrealism.

7. His first painting was a Pietà which is now located in the cathedral at Angoulême. He showed A Scene from the Song of Songs and The Death of Darius in the Salon of 1853.

8. Galatea
Jupiter and Semele

9. Orpheus
Hercules

10. Dead poet borne by centaur
Kleopatra on the Nile

11. The Poet and the Siren
Moses by the Nile

12. The Daughters of Tespio
Scottish Knight
The Daughters of Tespio

13. Salome
 Oedipus and the Sphinx

14. Helen on the ramparts of Troy
Cleopatra
Helen on the ramparts of Troy

15. Orpheus on the Tomb of Euridice
Prometheus

16. St. George and the Dragon
Hesiod and the Muse
St. George and the Dragon

17. Christ and Mary Magdalene
Apollon Recevant les Offrandes des Bergers...

18. Eve
The Voice of Eventide

19. Jason
The Unicorns

20. Helene on the ramparts of the Troy
Desdemone

21. St.Sebastian and the Angel
Jupiter and Semele
St.Sebastian and the Angel

22. Hesiod and the Muse
Mort de Sapho

23. The Sirens
St. Sebastian

24. Unicorn
Helene - glorofee

25. Salome
Salome Carrying the Head of John the Baptist on a Platter

26. The apparition

27. By Diana Mitrova 12a class