Growth of Royal Power

Forms to Reflect the Substance

Escorial and Versailles

Comparison of Style

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The Old Chateau

The Hall of Mirrors, 1685

                                                                                                                           

Produced by the Faubourg Saint-Antoine Glass Manufactory (later moved to Saint-Gobain)

Levee

The Queen’s Bed Chamber

                                                                           

The Grand and Lesser Stables

                                                                                                      

The Power of Portraits

• Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)

• Diego Velazquez (1599-1660)

• Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)

Charles I by van Dyck

• Van Dyck’s portrait on horseback

• Patron of art and artists• Rubens and van Dyck

invited to court• Invests in Titians and

Raphaels• Connoisseur of Baroque

style

Count Olivares and Philip IV Velasquez

Marie de Medici by Rubens

• Wife of Henry IV• Mother of Louis XIII• Considered a “handsome,

heartless, vulgar woman”• Marriage short and

unhappy (follows Henry’s divorce from Marguerite of Valois)

• Dauphin 9 at the time of Henry’s assassination

What you do when the facts are too hot to handleMythologize!

Inigo Jones’s Banqueting Hall

• Built for James I• Replaced previous one

that had burned• Palladian style• Incorporates motifs

from Greece and Rome (columns, pilasters, pediments