Jean Broc, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean Broc

French painter

Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1771

Place of Birth: Montignac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1850

Profession: painter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Jean Broc (1771–1850) was a French neoclassical painter.
His most famous work, The Death of Hyacinthos, was completed in 1801.
Hyacinthus was a young male beauty and lover of the god Apollo.
One day, while playing with a discus, Hyachinthus was struck with the object and consequently died.
The painting depicts Apollo's mourning for his dead lover.
Some myths link a jealous Zephyr to the incident, blaming his jealousy of Hyacinthus for a gust of wind resulting in the youth's death. Broc studied under Jacques-Louis David and is well known for the cultivation of the intellectual group known as Les Primitifs (a.k.a.
Barbus or "The Bearded Ones").