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The sovereign artist : Charles Le Brun and the image of Louis XIV / Wolf Burchard ; with a foreword by Christopher Le Brun.
Fine Arts Library ND553.L4 B87 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burchard, Wolf, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690.
- Le Brun, Charles.
- Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.
- Louis.
- Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715--Portraits.
- Art, French.
- Themes, motives.
- Art, French--17th century--Themes, motives.
- Kings and rulers in art.
- Louis XIV, 1638-1715.
- Art, French--Themes, motives.
- Local Subjects:
- Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690.
- Louis XIV, 1638-1715.
- Genre:
- Portraits.
- Physical Description:
- 286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Paul Holberton Publishing, [2016]
- Summary:
- This monograph is the first to examine 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 Académie 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 Académie, 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781911300052
- 1911300059
- OCLC:
- 951724540
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