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Charles le Brun
French Baroque Era Painter, 1619-1690
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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Painting ID:: 26837
Charles le Brun
mk52
1683-4
Oil on canvas
80x65cm
Uffizi,Florence
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Painting ID:: 40492
Chancellor Seguier at the Entry of Louis XIV into Paris in 1660
mk156
1655-61
Oil on canvas
295x357cm
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Painting ID:: 59557
Alexander and Porus
Alexander and Porus, painted 1673
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Painting ID:: 66691
Adoration by the Shepherds
Oil on canvas
151 x 213 cm
1689
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Painting ID:: 70933
L Assomption de la Vierge
L'Assomption de la Vierge, Le Brun.
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Charles le Brun
French Baroque Era Painter, 1619-1690
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
. Related Artists to Charles le Brun: | William Cruikshank | Arcangelo Resani | Charles Wilson Peale | Johannes Deiker | Theodore Heuck |
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