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Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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LE BRUN, Charles
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Apotheose of Louis XIV d
Painting ID:: 7823 LE BRUN, Charles2.jpg
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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 |
Apotheose of Louis XIV d |
1677
Oil on canvas, 109,5 78,3 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
Related Paintings::. | an extensive landscape with a ruined castle and a village church | The Artist's Garden at Giverny. | Reading | |
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