French Baroque art

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French Baroque art is a 17th-century artistic style in France characterized by grandeur, dramatic intensity, and rich ornamentation, closely associated with the absolutist court culture of Louis XIII and Louis XIV.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Baroque art
art movement
associatedWith Counter-Reformation aesthetics
French absolutism
King Louis XIII
surface form: Louis XIII of France

Louis XIV of France
court culture
center Paris
Versailles
country France
genre architecture
decorative arts
painting
sculpture
influenced Neoclassicism
surface form: French Neoclassicism

Rococo
surface form: French Rococo
influencedBy Caravaggisti
surface form: Caravaggism

High Renaissance art
Italian Baroque art
classical antiquity
institutionalSupport Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
Académie royale d’architecture
majorArchitect François Mansart
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
Louis Le Vau
majorArtist Charles Le Brun
Claude Lorrain
Eustache Le Sueur
Georges de La Tour
Nicolas Poussin
Simon Vouet
majorSculptor Antoine Coysevox
François Girardon
majorWork Église du Val-de-Grâce
surface form: Church of the Val-de-Grâce

Hôtel des Invalides
surface form: Dome of Les Invalides

Colonnade of the Louvre
surface form: East façade of the Louvre Palace

Galerie des Glaces at Versailles
surface form: Hall of Mirrors at Versailles

Château de Versailles
surface form: Palace of Versailles
movement Baroque
patronage Catholic Church in France
French royal court
period 17th century
stylisticFeatures classical order combined with exuberant decoration
dramatic intensity
dynamic compositions
grandeur
illusionistic effects
monumentality
rich ornamentation
strong contrasts of light and shadow
theatricality
theme allegories of power and glory
classical mythology
heroic history painting
religious subjects
royal propaganda

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French Renaissance hasInfluenceOn French Baroque art
Claude Perrault movement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French classicism
Royal Chapel of Versailles architecturalStyle French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Elizabethan Baroque influencedBy French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
English Baroque influencedBy French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Nicolas de Largillière movement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Noël Coypel partOf French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French royal art commissions of Louis XIV
Pierre Puget artisticStyle French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Pierre Puget influenced French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque sculpture
Jean Jouvenet artisticStyle French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Antoine Coysevox artisticStyle French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Pierre Mignard artisticSchool French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Jean Restout the Younger movement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Antoine Coypel movement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
The Rape of the Sabine Women movement French Baroque art
subject surface form: The Rape of the Sabine Women (Poussin)
this entity surface form: French Baroque
The Holy Family on the Steps subMovement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Decorations of the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles artMovement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Ceiling decorations of the Galerie d’Apollon in the Louvre artMovement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Atys style French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Giovanni Battista Lulli style French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Cordeliers Convent, Poitiers hasCulturalContext French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque era
Marc-Antoine Charpentier style French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Pierre Perrin movement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Lebrun movement French Baroque art
subject surface form: Charles Le Brun
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Italian Baroque hasInfluenceOn French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Portrait of Charles Le Brun style French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Portrait of the Duchess of Berry hasArtisticSchool French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
The Life of Saint Bruno movement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
The Preaching of Saint Paul at Ephesus movement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Saint Paul in Prison movement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
The Rape of Tamar creatorMovement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Life of Saint Bruno cycle at the Chartreuse de Paris movement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
The Finding of Moses artisticSchool French Baroque art
subject surface form: The Finding of Moses (Charles de La Fosse)
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Portrait of the Marquise de Montespan hasArtisticSchool French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Portrait of the Duke of Burgundy artisticSchool French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Portrait of the Duke of Antin artisticStyle French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Hyacinthe François Honoré Mathias Pierre Martyr Rigaud artisticMovement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Portrait of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans artisticSchool French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Coypel movement French Baroque art
subject surface form: Noël Coypel
this entity surface form: French Baroque
The Raising of Lazarus artStyle French Baroque art
subject surface form: The Raising of Lazarus (Jouvenet)
this entity surface form: French Baroque
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes creatorArtisticStyle French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Coysevox style French Baroque art
subject surface form: Antoine Coysevox
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Le Romain stylePeriod French Baroque art
subject surface form: Pierre Mignard
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Laurent Jouvenet artisticStyle French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
Simon Vouet influenced French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque painting
François de Troy artisticStyle French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
The Triumph of Truth movement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
The Apotheosis of Saint Benedict style French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
The Death of Ananias movement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque
The Healing of the Paralytic movement French Baroque art
this entity surface form: French Baroque