Jean-françois millet
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Mark Milley
20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and 39th Chief of Staff of the Army
This article is about the general. For the Irish athlete, see Mark Miley.
Mark Alexander Milley (born 20 June 1958) is a retired United States Armygeneral who served as the 20th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2019, to September 30, 2023. He had previously served as the 39th chief of staff of the Army from August 14, 2015, to August 9, 2019[3] and held multiple command and staff positions in eight divisions and special forces.
A Reserve Officers' Training Corps graduate from Princeton University, Milley earned his commission as an armor officer in 1980. He later received a master's degree from Columbia University. He was appointed chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by U.S. president Donald Trump, making Milley the tenth U.S. Army officer to be chairman. As chairman, Milley was the highest-ranking officer in the United States Armed Forces and the principal military advisor to the president of the United States, the secretary of defense, the National
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Jean-François Millet (1814–1875)
(Self-Portrait), c. 1846
Heliogravure after a charcoal drawing of 1846 on wove paper
15 1/5 x 11 in. (39 x 28cm)
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Jean-François Millet was born in 1814 in the Norman village of Gruchy, the eldest child in a large, closely knit family of farmers living in modest prosperity on their own land. His parents, religious and patriarchal, saw to it that he received a good education, which gave him a knowledge of Latin and a lifelong interest in literature. Having shown early signs of talent, the youth was sent to Cherbourg in 1833 to work with a local portrait painter, Bon Dumouchel (1807–1846). Two years later, he entered the studio of Lucien-Théophile Langlois (1803–1845), a former pupil of Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835). In 1837, provided with a stipend by the city of Cherbourg, Millet went to Paris, to enroll at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as the pupil of the history painter Paul Delaroche (1797–1856), then at the height of his cel
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Bates College
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814 -1875)
Born into a peasant farming family, Millet featured agricultural work prominently in his paintings that would inspire the Impressionists to follow. A stipend enabled Millet to move to Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Paul Delaroche. After a few years, Millet returned to his home in Cherbourg to begin a career as a portrait painter. Back in Paris in the middle 1840s, he found fame and success, and worked around artists like Honore Daumier, Charles Jacque and Théodore Rousseau—artists who also championed realism over heroic and historical epic painting. Millet came to eschew the idealized pastoral images of the countryside that were standard within Académie des Beaux-Arts and its salons.
He became a founding member of the influential Barbizon school, emphasizing images of real, every-day life and working from nature. Millet’s scenes of the countryside and its workers inspired Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Georges Seurat, Mark Twain, and Vincent Van Gogh. Leonard Baskin seems to have ta
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