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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:: 88681
Apotheose von Ludwig XIV
1677(1677)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 109,5 x 78,3 cm
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Painting ID:: 91845
Portrat des Bildhauers Nicolas le Brun
um 1635
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 87 X 69 cm (34.3 X 27.2 in)
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Painting ID:: 92930
Le Roi gouverne par lui-meme
c. 1680(1680)
Medium oil
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Painting ID:: 93661
Louis XIV. presenting his sceptre and helmet to Jesus Christ
1674(1674)
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 96039
Hercules
between 1658(1658) and 1661(1661)
Medium oil on canvas
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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: | Carl Heinrich Bloch | Albert Hertel | Heinrich von Angeli | Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux | Cordelia Wilson |
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