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Baroque Overview
Italian Baroque
French Baroque
Rococo Art
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School of Fontainebleau: |
Ten pictures including pictures from
Jean Clouet, his son Francois Clouet,
and the Fontainebleau School of painters.
born: about 1590
died: Toulouse, France; about 1638
French Caravaggesque painter of which little is known.
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The Crucifixion of Christ |
born: Paris, France; 9 January 1590
died: Paris, France; 30 June 1649
Simon Vouet was a leading French Baroque painter and an arbiter of taste for almost 20 years.
Vouet taught most of the painters of the next generation in France, notably Le Brun, Le Sueur and Mignard.
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Prince Marcantonio Doria |
born: Colulmmiers, France; 1591
died: Rome, Papal States [now Italy]; 1632
Worked mostly in Italy... most Caravaggesque, in every way, of the followers of Caravaggio.
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St John the Baptist |
Ten more le Valentin pictures.
born: Nancy, France; 1592
died: Nancy, France; 1635
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The Holy Family at Table |
The Battle of Avigliana |
born: Tours, France; 1593
died: Paris, France; 1670
French painter and engraver.
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The Young Singer |
Esther before Ahasuerus |
Croesus Receiving Tribute |
born: Vic-sur-Seille, France; 19 March 1593
died: Lunéville, France; 30 January 1652
He specialized in night scenes lit by candlelight.
He was mostly forgotten and rediscovered in the mid 20th Century.
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St. Irene Removing |
Ten more pictures by de La Tour.
Nicolas
Poussinborn: Villers near Paris, France; 1594
died: Rome, Papal States [now Italy]; 19 November 1665
Spent most of career in Rome, was heavily influenced by the paintings of Raphael.
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Adoration of the Golden Calf |
Midas and Bacchus |
born: 1595
died: 1641
born: Strasbourg, France; 1597
died: Idstein, France; 1657
French still-life painter.
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Still Life with |
Five more Stoskopff still-life paintings.
born: Paris, France; 1600
died: Paris, France; 1638
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Bacchanal |
Five more Blanchard paintings.
born: Champagne, France; 1600
died: Rome, Papal States [now Italy]; 23 November 1682
Best known for, and master painter of ideal landscapes.
Ideal-landscape painting is an painting that seeks to present a view of nature more beautiful and harmonious than nature itself. The beauty is defined by classical concepts, and the landscape often contains classical ruins and pastoral figures in classical dress.
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Seaport at Sunset |
The Village Fete
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born: Laon, France; 1600
died: Paris, France; 1648 of the black plague.
born: Laon, France; 1603
died: Paris, France; 1648 of the black plague.
born: Laon, France; 1607
died: 1677
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Peasants at their Cottage Door |
Peasant Meal |
Six more Le Nain Brothers pictures.
born: Paris, France; about 1600
died: Paris, France; 1645
French still-life painter.
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Bouquet on |
Basket of Flowers
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The Five Senses |
born: Paris, France; 1602
died: Paris, France; 1676
French engraver.
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Man with a Rocket |
born: Brussels, Spanish Netherlands [now Belgium]; 26 May 1602
died: Paris, France; 12 August 1674
portrait, historical, and religious painter.
After his training in Brussels, as a young man of nineteen, Champaigne arrived in Paris seeking work. Nicolas Poussin hired him to help decorate the Luxembourg Palace.
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Triple Portrait of Richelieu
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The Dead Christ |
Twelve more de Champaigne pictures.
born: Picardie, France; 1605
died: Paris, France; 1676
French landscape painter.
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Fantastic Landscape |
Landscape with Ruins |
born: Paris, France; 27 February 1606
died: Paris, France; 28 December 1656
He was the son of the painter Étienne de La Hire (c. 1583–1643), but was heavily influenced by the work of Georges Lallemont and Orazio Gentileschi.
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![La Hire: [detail] Theseus and Aethra](la-hire/M/la-hire_theseus%2Baethra-d1.c1637.jpg) |
Theseus and Aethra
1635-40
Museum of Fine Arts
Budapest, Hungary
born: 1606
died: 1688
born: Paris, France; 1610
died: Paris, France; 1696
French Huguenot still-life painter.
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Basket with |
Still-life with |
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Cup of Cherries |
Market Scene |
Pierre
Mignardborn: Troyes, France; 17 November 1612
died: Paris, France; 13 May 1695
Mignard studied with Simon Vouet in Paris, At age eighteen Mignard left for Italy, where he spent 22 years that made him famous as a portrait painter. A royal summons brought him back to Paris in 1657. His portrait of Louis XIV found favor in the court and Mignard pitted himself for power against Charles Le Brun, but without much success; Le Brun was much too well entrenched.
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Clio, Muse of Music |
born: Rome, Papal States [now Italy]; 1615
died: Rome, Papal States [now Italy]; 1675
French landscape painter, draughtsman, and etcher, born of French parents and
active in
Rome. He was the brother-in-law of Nicholas Poussin, whose surname he adopted.
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Imaginary Landscape |
Landscape with |
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The Falls of Tivoli |
View of Tivoli |
born: Montpellier, France; 1616
died: Paris, France; 1671
In 1634-7 he worked in Rome. He developed a talent for faking the work of other painters and increasing the value of his work by selling it as theirs. Among the artists he faked were Claude and Duget He continued to fake other artists when he returned to France, and thus his output is hard to define and separate from those he imitated.
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Portrait of a Man |
born: Paris, France; 1616
died: Paris, France; 1671
Le Sueur studied with Simon Vouet.
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Caligula Depositing the Ashes |
Five more picture by Eustache Le Sueur.
born: Paris, France; 24 February 1619
died: Paris, France; 12 February 1690
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Peace bringing Abundance |
Anger |
Le Brun was a French painter and designer who became the dictator of artistic style in France during the last half of the 17th century. He created or supervised the production of most of the art and decorative objects during the three decades of Louis XIV. French artists were constrained, not without occasional protest, to a homogeneous style that came to be accepted throughout Europe as the paragon of academic art.
born: Marseille, France; 16 October 1620
died: Marseille, France; 2 December 1694
French baroque sculptor, painter, and architect.
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Milon de Croton |
born: about 1636
died: 1716
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The Temptation of Christ |
The Finding of Moses |
born: Ruen, France; 1644
died: Paris; France; 1717
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The Resurrection |
The Descent |
The Doctor, |
born: Lille, France; 1636
died: London, England; 1699
Franco-Flemish flower-painter who trained in Antwerp, Belgium.
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Flowers |
Flowers and Fruits |
Flowers |
born: about 1640
died: 1720
born: about 1657
died: 1733
French Sculptor.
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Andromeda and |
Monument of |
born: Perpignan, France; 1659
died: Paris, France, 1743
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A Scholar |
Madame Rigaud |
Louis XIV |
born: about 1686
died: 1755
Pierre
Subleyrasborn: Saint-Gilles (Gard), Southern France;1699
died: Rome, Papal States [Now Italy]; 1749
The Hermit and Monk |
Charon Crossing to the Shades |
Dom Cesare Benvenuti |
Jacques-Antoine de Lironcourt |
St Ambrose Converting Theodosius |
The Studio of the Painter |
Baroque Overview
Italian and Spanish
Baroque
Rococo Art
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![callot: [etching] The Holy Family at Table](callot/M/callot_holy_family.jpg)
![callot: [etching] The Battle of Avigliana](callot/M/callot_aviglian.jpg)
![Bosse: [etching] Man with a Rocket](bosse/M/bosse_man%2Brocket.1737-engraving.jpg)
![LeBrun: [pen and ink] Anger](le-brun/M/lebrun_anger.c166x.jpg)
![Puget: [Marble Sculpture] Milon de Croton](puget/M/puget_milon.de_crotona.1683.jpg)
![Monnot: [scultpure] Andromeda and the Sea Monster](monnot/M/monnot_andromeda.1704.jpg)
![Monnot: [sculpture] Monument of Pope Gregory XV](monnot/M/monnot_monument_of_pope_gregory_xv.1697.jpg)
