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French Baroque: Paintings, Landscapes and Architecture Georges de la Tour: Adoration of the Shepherds, 1644, oil/canvas, 40 x 52" Repentant Magdalene, 1640 (Louvre version) Perrault, Le Vau, and Le Brun: east facade of the Louvre, Paris,


  1. French Baroque: Paintings, Landscapes and Architecture Georges de la Tour: Adoration of the Shepherds, 1644, oil/canvas, 40 x 52" Repentant Magdalene, 1640 (Louvre version) Perrault, Le Vau, and Le Brun: east facade of the Louvre, Paris, 1667-1670 (for comparison with the palace of Versailles) VERSAILLES • Andre Le Notre: landscape design and gardens • Charles Le Brun, Louis Le Vau, and Jules Hardouin-Mansart: architects of various parts of the palace and related buildings • initial designs made 1661-1668; • primary construction 1669-1690 • Hall of Mirrors (Hardouin-Mansart and Le Brun, c. 1680) • Royal Chapel, the Palace of Versailles: Hardouin-Mansart, • ceiling decoration by Antoine Coypel, 1698-1710 Hyacinthe Rigaud: Louis XIV, King of France, in Royal Costume 1701, oil on canvas, 9'2 x 6'3" Hardouin-Mansart: Eglise de Dome (Church of the Invalides) 1676-1706, Paris painting the heroic landscape: Nicolas Poussin and the "grand manner" in landscape painting: subject, thought, structure, style Landscape with the Gathering of the Ashes of Phocion, mid-17th C, oil on canvas Burial of Phocion, 1648, oil/canvas, both paintings 47 x 70" Claude Lorrain: Landscape with Cattle and Peasants, 1629, oil on canvas, 42 x 58" Pastoral Landscape, 1638, oil on canvas, 38-1/4 x 51-1/4 in.

  2. 1 2 . F R E N CH B A R O Q U E Creator Hyacinthe Rigaud Title Louis XIV, King of France, in Royal Costume Date 1701 Creator Claude Perrault (1613- 1688) Title Colonnade, east wing of the Louvre, façade Date 1664- 1667 Creator Le Vau, Louis, French Hardouin- Mansart, Jules, French Title Palace of Versailles [ aerial view of complex] Date 1668- 1685 Creator Hardouin- Mansart, Jules, French Le Brun, Charles, French Title Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles Date begun 1678

  3. Creator Jules Hardouin- Mansart (1646- 1708) Title Chateau de Versailles Date 1678- 1684 Creator Hardouin- Mansart, Jules, French, 1646- 1708 Title Royal Chapel, the Palace of Versailles: interior, view towards E. (ceiling decoration by Antoine Coypel), 1698- 1710 Creator Mansart, Jules Hardouin, French, 1646- 1708 Title Les Invalides Date 1676- 1706 Creator La Tour, Georges du Mesnil de, 1593- 1652 Title Magdalene at the Mirror Date c.1635

  4. Creator Georges de La Tour Title Adoration of the Shepherds Date c. 1644 Creator Claude Gellée, also called Claude Lorrain, French, 1600 - 1682 Title Landscape with Cattle and Peasants Date 1629 Creator Poussin, Nicolas, French Title Burial of Phocion Date 1648

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