Charles Le Brun

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French Baroque artist decorator human painter

Charles Le Brun was a leading 17th-century French painter and decorator, chief painter to Louis XIV, and a central figure in defining the grand style of French Baroque art.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French Baroque artist → decorator → human → painter →
artisticStyle	French Baroque →
birthCountry	France →
birthDate	1619-02-24 →
birthPlace	Paris →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
deathCountry	France →
deathDate	1690-02-12 →
deathPlace	Paris →
employer	French royal court → Louis XIV of France →
era	17th century →
gender	male →
genre	allegorical painting → ceiling painting → history painting →
influenced	French academic painting → Grand manner in French art →
influencedBy	Nicolas Poussin → Pierre Puget →
languageOfWork	French →
memberOf	Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture → Manufacture des Gobelins →
movement	Baroque →
name	Charles Le Brun →
nationality	French →
notableWork	Ceiling decorations of the Galerie d’Apollon in the Louvre → Decorations at the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte → Decorations of the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles → The Apotheosis of Louis XIV → The Battles of Alexander →
occupation	decorator → designer → painter →
patron	Louis XIV of France → Nicolas Fouquet →
positionHeld	Director of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture → Director of the Manufacture des Gobelins → First Painter to King Louis XIV → Premier peintre du Roi →
religion	Catholicism →
roleInArtHistory	principal formulator of the grand style in French Baroque art →
workLocation	Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte → Palace of Versailles → Paris →

Referenced by (14)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Louis XIV of France → Nicolas Fouquet →	patronOf
Gardens of Vaux-le-Vicomte →	associatedArtist
Gardens of the Palace of Versailles →	designedBy
Louis Dieudonné →	employer
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture →	foundedBy
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture →	hadLeader
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture →	hadMember
Charles de La Fosse →	influencedBy
Charles Le Brun →	name
French royal court →	patronized
Guillaume Coustou the Elder →	relative
Charles de La Fosse →	studentOf
Guillaume Coustou the Elder →	uncle