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French Baroque Charles Le Brun

Charles Le Brun
Lebrun

born: Paris, France; 24 February 1619
died: Paris, France; 12 February 1690

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.

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