Baroque Art - 4 France
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French baroque is very classicist, with influences of Mannerism. Courtly origin, palatial taste.
Urbanism: Paris.
Henry IV: Place Dauphine, Place Royale, Place de France
Louis XIII: Ile Saint-Louis, Richelieu district
Louis XIV: Place des Victoires (2), Place Vendôme, Jardin des Tuileries, Boulevards, Gates of St Denis and St Martin
Place de la Libération de Dijon, by Mansart.
Place Ducale de Charleville, by Metezeau.
Villa Richelieu
Strongholds: Rocroi, Neuf-Brisach, Chambord
Architecture
St Étienne du Mont: mix gothic, renaissance, baroque.
Louis XIII style, italian influence.
Salomon de Brosse: Luxembourg Palace, Blérancourt Palace, Parlement of Brittany (Rennes), St Gervais, St Paul et St Louis.
Jacques Lemercier: Palais Royal, Sorbonne. Val-de-Grâce.
François Mansart: Sainte Marie de la Visitation, Maisons-Laffitte.
Louis Le Vau: simplicity in constructions and elegance in decorations. Vaux-le-Vicomte, Collège des Quatre-Nations.
Louis XIV style, classical, symmetric facades, very decorated interiors.
Louvre Palace.
Les Invalides: complex for military troops. Libéral Bruant and Jules Hardouin-Mansart.
Salpêtrière: by Libéral Bruant.
Versailles: Le Vau and Jules Hardouin Mansart as architects, Le Brun as painter, Lenôtre as gardener. Horizontality. Great salons. Gardens. Room of Mirrors. Grand Trianon (3). Petit Trianon (4).
Louis XV style, rococo, lot of decoration, asymmetric forms.
Delamair: Palace Soubise.
Jacques Gabriel: Palace of Biron.
Robert de Cotte: Palace d’Estrées, Palais Rohan.
Others: Saint-Louis-en-I’Îlle, Bonsecours Chapel.
The style of Louis XVI is the beginning of neoclassicism.
Ange-Jacques Gabriel: Military school.
Servandoni: St Sulpice.
Soufflot: Pantheon of Paris.
Sculpture: mostly busts, equestrian, allegorical and funerary.
Louis XIII period
Simon Guillain: Tomb of Charlotte-Catherine de la Tremoille, Louis XIV child among his parents.
Jacques Sarrazin: Monument du coeur of cardinal Pierre de Bérulle, Caryatids of the Clock of Louvre.
Jean Varin: Bust of Richelieu.
Louis XIV period
Pierre Puget: Milo of Crotone, Perseus and Andromeda, Relief of Alexander and Diogenes, Caryatids of Toulon.
François Girardon: Rape of Proserpine, Apollo and the nymphs, Fountain of the pyramid, Winter, Clock of Versailles.
Antoine Coysevox: Self portrait, Louis XIV, Fame of Louis XIV, Neptune.
Louis XV period
Nicolas and Guillermo Coustou: Group of Marly.
Robert Le Lorrain: Relief of the Horses of Sun.
Jean Baptiste Lemoyne: Bust of Louis XV, Vertumno and Pomona.
François Dumont: Titan struck.
Edme Bouchardon: Cupid making his bow.
Jean Baptiste Pigalle: Voltaire.
Jean Antoine Houdon: Diane huntress, Rousseau, Voltaire.
Painting: classicist, decorate palaces. Portraits and mythological.
XVII century: italian influence, mostly by the Carracci.
Le Nain: Forge, Village feast, Village family.
Georges de la Tour: Penitent Magdalena, San Jose carpenter, San Sebastian and Santa Irene, Newborn, Wrightsman Magdalena, Dice Players.
Philippe de Champaigne: Richelieu, Aldermen of Paris, Exvoto, Last Supper, Vanitas.
Simon Vouet: Wealth, Venus, Apollo, Saturn defeated by Love Venus and Hope, Venus of the mirror.
Pierre Mignard: Maria Mancini.
Charles Le Brun: Versailles, Louvre, Alexander and Poros, Chancellor Séguier.
Nicolas Poussin: he is in love with the italian landscapes. He made roman history paintings, biblical, mythological and philosophical. Death of Germanico, Eliezer and Rebecca, Triumph of Flora, Empire of Flora, Shepherds of Arcadia, Helios and Phaeton with Saturn, Bacchanale, Eco and Narcissus, Inspiration of the Poet, Polyphemus, St Matthew and the Angel, Landscape with three men, Spring, Four Seasons, Flood.
Claude Lorrain: painter of light.
XVIII century: parties and portraits, mythological and femenin characters as deities.
Antoine Watteau: Guilles, Mezzetin, Love in the italian theatre, French theatre, Shipment to the island of Citerea, Minuet, Nymph of the fountain, Indifferent, Lesson of Love, Song of Love, Mascarade, Pleasures of dance, L'Enseigne de Gersaint.
François Boucher: Madame Pompadour, Birth of Venus, Diane in the bath, Portrait of Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Venus of the Mirror, Venus and Cupid, Cupid disarmed.
Jean Honoré Fragonard: Swing, Happy lovers, Girl with dog, Reader, Love Paintings (Poursuite, Rencontre, Lettre d’amour, Souvenirs, Amant couronné, Abandonnée), Amour triomphant.
Hyacinthe Rigaud: Louis XIV (2), Louis XV.
Jean-Marc Nattier : Maria Leszczynska, Battle of Lesnaya, Thalia.
Maurice Quentin La Tour: Marquise Pompadour.
Jean Baptiste Greuze: Guitarist.
Alexandre-François Desportes: Self portrait as hunter.
Music: Spring by Antonio Vivaldi
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