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French Baroque
Characteristics
• Academic• Pyramidal• Symmetrical• Appears very “Renaissance”
France
• Bourbon monarchs– Henry IV– Louis XIII(Marie de Medici, Richelieu)– Louis XIV(Anne of Austria, Mazarin)
Louis XIV
• “Sun King”• Scientific Revolution• Copernican theory• Sunflowers• Apollo• 1635: French Royal Academy of Painting and
Sculpture-strict control
Hyacinthe Rigaud: Louis XIV
How does Louis XIV “use” art?How does his use of art differ from the Catholic Church?
Peasant Dinner, LeNain,
Family of Country People, LeNain, 1640, oil on canvas
Nicolas Poussin
Poussin, Holy Family on the Steps, 1648
Poussin: Bacchanalia
Poussin
Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, 1701
Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, 1638
Mansart and LeVau: VERSAILLES
LeBrun
Poussin: John in Patmos
Lorrain, Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, 1648
Miseries of War, Callot, 1633, etching