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The Sovereign Artist
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Author : Wolf Burchard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Sovereign Artist written by Wolf Burchard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Art categories.
This monograph examines the wide artistic production of Louis XIV's most prolific and powerful artist, Charles Le Brun (1619-1690), illustrating the magnificence of his paintings and focusing particularly on the interiors and decorative art works produced according to his designs. In his joint capacities of Premier peintre du roi, director of the Gobelins manufactory and rector of the Acad mie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Le Brun exercised a previously unprecedented influence on the production of the visual arts - so much so that some scholars have repeatedly described him as 'dictator' of the arts in France. The Sovereign Artist explores how Le Brun operated in his diverse fields of activities, linking and juxtaposing his portraiture, history painting and pictorial theory with his designs for architecture, tapestries, carpets and furniture. It argues that Le Brun sought to create a repeatable and easily recognizable visual language associated with Louis XIV, in order to translate the king's political claims for absolute power into a visual form. How he did this is discussed through a series of individual case studies ranging from Le Brun's lost equestrian portrait of Louis XIV, and his involvement in the Querelle du coloris at the Acad mie, to his scheme for 93 Savonnerie carpets for the Grande Galerie at the Louvre, his Histoire du roy tapestry series, his decoration of the now destroyed Escalier des Ambassadeurs at Versailles and the dramatic destruction of the Sun King's silver furniture. One key theme is the relation between the unity of the visual arts, to which Le Brun aspired, and the strong hierarchical distinctions he made between the liberal arts and the mechanical crafts: while his lectures at the Acad mie advocated a visual and conceptual unity in painting and architecture, they were also a means by which he attempted to secure the newly gained status of painting as a liberal art, and therefore to distinguish it from the mechanical crafts which he oversaw the production of at the Gobelins. His artistic and architectural aspirations were comparable to those of his Roman contemporary Gianlorenzo Bernini, summoned to Paris in 1665 to design the Louvre's East fa ade and to create a portrait bust of Louis XIV. Bernini's failure to convince the king and Colbert of his architectural scheme offered new opportunities for Le Brun and his French contemporaries to prove themselves capable of solving the architectural problems of the Louvre and to transform it into a palace appropriate "to the grandeur and the magnificence of the prince who was] to inhabit it" (Jean-Baptiste Colbert to Nicolas Poussin in 1664). The comparison between Le Brun and Bernini not only illustrates how France sought artistic supremacy over Italy during the second half of the 17th century, but further helps to demonstrate how Le Brun himself wanted to be perceived: beyond acting as a translator of the king's artistic ambition, the artist appears to have sought his own sovereign authority over the visual arts.
Charles Le Brun Drawings
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Author : Maria Peitcheva
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-12-02
Charles Le Brun Drawings written by Maria Peitcheva and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-02 with categories.
Charles Le Brun (1619 - 1690) was a French painter and art theorist. Declared by Louis XIV "the greatest French artist of all time", he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influenced by Nicolas Poussin. Le Brun primarily worked for King Louis XIV, for whom he executed large altarpieces and battle pieces. His most important paintings are at Versailles. Le Brun was also a fine portraitist and an excellent draughtsman, but he was not fond of portrait or landscape painting, which he felt to be a mere exercise in developing technical prowess. What mattered was scholarly composition, whose ultimate goal was to nourish the spirit. The fundamental basis on which the director of the Academy based his art was unquestionably to make his paintings speak, through a series of symbols, costumes and gestures that allowed him to select for his composition the narrative elements that gave his works a particular depth. Nearly all his compositions have been reproduced by celebrated engravers.
Printing The Grand Manner
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Author : Louis Marchesano
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2010
Printing The Grand Manner written by Louis Marchesano and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.
By exploring the intense interaction between painting and printmaking between art theory and unbridled artistic ambition, Printing the Grand Manner breaks new ground in its analysis of both the reproductive prints and Le Brun's original compositions. --Book Jacket.
Charles Le Brun First Painter To King Louis Xiv
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Author : Michel Gareau
language : en
Publisher: Harry N Abrams Incorporated
Release Date : 1992
Charles Le Brun First Painter To King Louis Xiv written by Michel Gareau and has been published by Harry N Abrams Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Art categories.
There are those who claim that LeBrun is the greatest of the French painters. The main purpose of this book is to view LeBrun through the eyes of the time in which he lived in order to better appreciate him.
Resemblances Amazing Faces
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Author : Charles Le Brun
language : en
Publisher: Harlin Quist Books
Release Date : 1980
Resemblances Amazing Faces written by Charles Le Brun and has been published by Harlin Quist Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
"Series of Charles Le Brun's witty and satiric engravings of men and their animal counterparts"--Back cover.
Charles Le Brun Master Drawings
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Author : Blagoy Kiroff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-11-24
Charles Le Brun Master Drawings written by Blagoy Kiroff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-24 with categories.
Charles Le Brun (1619 - 1690) was a French painter and art theorist. Declared by Louis XIV "the greatest French artist of all time", he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influenced by Nicolas Poussin. Le Brun primarily worked for King Louis XIV, for whom he executed large altarpieces and battle pieces. His most important paintings are at Versailles. Le Brun was also a fine portraitist and an excellent draughtsman, but he was not fond of portrait or landscape painting, which he felt to be a mere exercise in developing technical prowess. What mattered was scholarly composition, whose ultimate goal was to nourish the spirit. The fundamental basis on which the director of the Academy based his art was unquestionably to make his paintings speak, through a series of symbols, costumes and gestures that allowed him to select for his composition the narrative elements that gave his works a particular depth. Nearly all his compositions have been reproduced by celebrated engravers.
Charles Le Brun His Palette
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Author : Arron Adams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-07-31
Charles Le Brun His Palette written by Arron Adams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-31 with categories.
Charles Le Brun was a French painter and art theorist. Declared by Louis XIV "the greatest French artist of all time", he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influenced by Nicolas Poussin. Le Brun primarily worked for King Louis XIV, for whom he executed large altarpieces and battle pieces. His most important paintings are at Versailles. Le Brun was also a fine portraitist and an excellent draughtsman, but he was not fond of portrait or landscape painting, which he felt to be a mere exercise in developing technical prowess. What mattered was scholarly composition, whose ultimate goal was to nourish the spirit. The fundamental basis on which the director of the Academy based his art was unquestionably to make his paintings speak, through a series of symbols, costumes and gestures that allowed him to select for his composition the narrative elements that gave his works a particular depth. Nearly all his compositions have been reproduced by celebrated engravers.
Charles Le Brun 215 Colour Plates
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Author : Maria Peitcheva
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-06-18
Charles Le Brun 215 Colour Plates written by Maria Peitcheva and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-18 with categories.
Charles Le Brun was a French painter and art theorist. Declared by Louis XIV "the greatest French artist of all time", he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influenced by Nicolas Poussin. Le Brun primarily worked for King Louis XIV, for whom he executed large altarpieces and battle pieces. His most important paintings are at Versailles. Le Brun was also a fine portraitist and an excellent draughtsman, but he was not fond of portrait or landscape painting, which he felt to be a mere exercise in developing technical prowess. What mattered was scholarly composition, whose ultimate goal was to nourish the spirit. The fundamental basis on which the director of the Academy based his art was unquestionably to make his paintings speak, through a series of symbols, costumes and gestures that allowed him to select for his composition the narrative elements that gave his works a particular depth. Nearly all his compositions have been reproduced by celebrated engravers.
A Grand Tableau Charles Le Brun S Portrait Of The Jabach Family
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Author : Stephan Wolohojian
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2017-08-01
A Grand Tableau Charles Le Brun S Portrait Of The Jabach Family written by Stephan Wolohojian and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-01 with Art categories.
Few things are more exciting than the rediscovery of a lost but storied work of art. This Bulletin examines Charles Le Brun’s spectacular Everhard Jabach (1618–1695) and His Family, a landmark of Western portraiture that was long thought destroyed—known only from photographs taken before World War II—when it was found hanging in an English country house, where it had languished for more than a century prior to its acquisition by The Met. The authors tease out the many secrets bound up in Le Brun’s canvas and its extraordinary sitter, who was one of the greatest art collectors of seventeenth-century Europe.
A Grand Tableau
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Author : Stephan Wolohojian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
A Grand Tableau written by Stephan Wolohojian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
Contains three essay concerning the painting "Everhard Jabach and His Family" by Charles Le Brun.