French Art: The Ancien Regime, 1620-1775

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The third volume of Andre Chastel's sweeping history of French art explores the extraordinary painting, sculpture, and architecture that emerged during the reigns of Louis XIII, Louis XIV, and Louis XV. During this 150-year period, three major styles dominated French art. Under Louis XIII, the official court painter was Peter Paul Rubens, and the order of the day was the baroque, a continuation of the Italian influence which had spread to France during the Renaissance. However, over the course of Louis XIV's ...
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The third volume of Andre Chastel's sweeping history of French art explores the extraordinary painting, sculpture, and architecture that emerged during the reigns of Louis XIII, Louis XIV, and Louis XV. During this 150-year period, three major styles dominated French art. Under Louis XIII, the official court painter was Peter Paul Rubens, and the order of the day was the baroque, a continuation of the Italian influence which had spread to France during the Renaissance. However, over the course of Louis XIV's 60-year reign, a uniquely French style of triumphal classicism emerged, whose monumental proportions reflected the Sun King's drive for French hegemony in Europe. This striving for glory was expressed artistically in the grandiose architecture of Versailles and its complex painted and sculpted allegorical program. Louis XV's tastes were very different from those of his celebrated predecessor. He had the monumental apartments at Versailles subdivided to create more refined, intimate settings, and had them hung with charming rococo pastoral scenes and fetes galantes. This period also saw a flowering of the decorative arts, in which stylistic developments paralleled those in painting, sculpture, and architecture.
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Chastel completes his exquisite art historical trilogy (French Art: The Renaissance, 1430-1620, LJ 12/95; French Art: Prehistory to the Middle Ages, Flammarion, 1994) with this volume on the visual arts of the reigns of Louis XIV, XV, and XVI. With an effortless command of both the material and its scholarship, he skillfully guides readers over the wonderfully wide-ranging achievements of French art of the 17th and 18th centuries. Not only are the monuments within the traditional universe of architecture and painting adeptly scrutinized; areas as diverse and significant as urban planning, garden and interior design, furniture, and the crafts also receive their due. Great and less-than-great works are succinctly evoked and ably placed within a context of period styles, function, and patronage. The significance of the salon, oral criticism, the Academy, and art theory is also ably suggested. All this is set within a flexible chronological embrace that sensibly unfolds the development of the national tradition. Although the volume is awash with beautiful color reproductions, its usefulness is somewhat vitiated by too numerous cited but unillustrated works. Still, this is highly recommended for all art collections.-Robert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York
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  • ISBN-13: 9782080136176
  • Publisher: Rizzoli
  • Publication date: 10/9/1996
  • Series: History of French Art
  • Pages: 336
  • Product dimensions: 11.34 (w) x 10.02 (h) x 1.40 (d)

Table of Contents

A Heroic Era 1620-1660
1 Preciosity 98
2 Architectural Inventiveness 108
3 Experimentation in Painting 124
4 Master Architects: Francois Mansart and Louis Le Vau 159
A Regal Era 1660-1710
1 The Age of Louis XIV 168
2 Royal Palaces: The Louvre and Versailles 176
3 The Grand Manner in Painting and Decoration 196
4 The Grand Manner in Furniture and Sculpture 205
5 The Grand Manner in Architecture 216
6 Around 1700 230
An Era of Grace and Craft 1710-1775
1 The Aristocratic age of Rococo and the Enlightenment 244
2 Spectacular Urban Development 259
3 Pride of Craft 278
4 Painting and Sculpture: Genres and Themes 298
5 Culture and "Deconstruction" 338
Notes 366
Introduction to the History of French Art Extracts 370
Bibliography 380
Index 388
Picture Credits 400
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