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Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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LE BRUN, Charles
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Entry of Alexander into Babylon h
Painting ID:: 7822
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LE BRUN, Charles
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French painter (b. 1619, Paris, d. 1690, Paris)
French painter and designer. He dominated 17th-century French painting as no other artist; it was not until over a century later, during the predominance of Jacques-Louis David, that artistic authority was again so concentrated in one man. Under the protection of a succession of important political figures, including Chancellor Pierre S?guier, Cardinal Richelieu and Nicolas Fouquet, Le Brun created a series of masterpieces of history and religious painting. For Louis XIV and his chief minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert he executed his greatest work, the royal palace of Versailles: an almost perfect ensemble of architecture, decoration and landscape. After Colbert's death in 1683, he was no longer able to count on prestigious commissions |
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Entry of Alexander into Babylon h |
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c. 1664
Oil on canvas, 450 x 707 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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Related Paintings::.
| Self-Portrait | Queen Victoria (mk25) | Madonna with Angels Playing Music and Donor | |
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