French Painting in the Golden Age

A comprehensive account that covers not only official court art but early realism, narrative painting, landscape, portraiture, and still life.

The seventeenth century has always been considered the golden agethe grand siecle of French culture. The reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV witnessed an unprecedented flowering of literature and philosophy, of music, architecture, sculpture, and painting. Some of the greatest names in the history of art belong to this period: Nicolas Poussin and Claud...