Spanish Baroque Era Painter, 1578-1649 Related Paintings of Maino, Juan Bautista del :. | The Adoration of the Magi | Adoration of the Shepherds | The Adoration of the Magi | View of the City of Zaragoza | The Recovery of Bahia in Brazil | Related Artists:
Viacheslav SchwarzAustralian,1838-69
Carolus-DuranFrench Academic Painter, 1838-1917
LE BRUN, CharlesFrench painter (b. 1619, Paris, d. 1690, Paris)
French painter and designer. He dominated 17th-century French painting as no other artist; it was not until over a century later, during the predominance of Jacques-Louis David, that artistic authority was again so concentrated in one man. Under the protection of a succession of important political figures, including Chancellor Pierre S?guier, Cardinal Richelieu and Nicolas Fouquet, Le Brun created a series of masterpieces of history and religious painting. For Louis XIV and his chief minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert he executed his greatest work, the royal palace of Versailles: an almost perfect ensemble of architecture, decoration and landscape. After Colbert's death in 1683, he was no longer able to count on prestigious commissions
