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,

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Family of Country People, LeNain, 1640, oil on canvas

Nicolas Poussin

Poussin, Holy Family on the Steps, 1648

Poussin: Bacchanalia

Poussin

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Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, 1701

Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, 1638

Mansart and LeVau: VERSAILLES

LeBrun

De La Tour

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Poussin: John in Patmos

Lorrain, Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, 1648

Miseries of War, Callot, 1633, etching