Vien led the fashionable taste in [[France]] for subjects from the classics when he returned to Paris in 1750, full of ideas from [[Rome]] (He studied in Rome, from 1743 to 1750). [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] acknowledged his merit by making him a senator. | Vien led the fashionable taste in [[France]] for subjects from the classics when he returned to Paris in 1750, full of ideas from [[Rome]] (He studied in Rome, from 1743 to 1750). [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] acknowledged his merit by making him a senator. |