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FRENCH PAINTING IN THE 16TH CE Louis 1865-1943 Dimier,Harold Hannyngton 1869-1945 Child No preview available - 2016 |
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Ambroise Dubois Andrea del Sarto appears Archives de l'art artist attributed Bâtiments du Roi Beaux-Arts Boisy Bouchot Bunel Cabinet of Prints castle Catalogue Catherine de Medici ceiling Cellini century chalk chalk-drawings Chamber Chantilly Charles collection Comptes des Bâtiments copies Corneille court death decoration Decourt Diana document doubt drawing Dubreuil Dumoûtier engraved epoch execution fact famous Fantose favour Félibien Flemings Flemish Foulon François Clouet French painting Gaignières Giulio Giulio Romano hand Henri IV Hercules Ibid imitation Italian Italy Jean Clouet Jean Decourt King of France king's known l'art français Laborde large number later Louis Louis XIII Louvre Lyons manner master mentioned monogram Müntz Museum Niccolo original ornament painter period portrait portrait-painters Pourbus presumed Primaticcio Primatice Prints in Paris Queen recognise reign of Henri Renaissance Rosso School of Fontainebleau seen stucco style subjects taste tion Ulysses Gallery Vasari
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Page 52 - ... good actions. The King, while I was delivering this speech, continued listening till the end with the utmost courtesy, dropping a few words such as only he could utter. Then he took the vase and basin, and exclaimed: " Of a truth I hardly think the ancients can have seen a piece so beautiful as this. I well remember to have inspected all the best works, and by the greatest masters of all Italy, but I never set my eyes on anything which stirred me to such admiration.
Page 18 - France awhile and painted an Adoration of the Magi in the Church of Aigueperse in Auvergne. Several artists were called from Italy to paint the frescoes in the Cathedral of Albi. Louis xn tried to lure Leonardo da Vinci to him. The Cardinal d'Amboise, Louis...
Page 51 - I. was really an amateur of the art, not merely a patron, like Louis XIV. for example. He had the taste for artistic things which comes of the pleasure they give and the power to appreciate it.
Page 1 - CCCLXXIII embraces the period which extends in France from the accession of Francois I. to the death of Henri IV., with the addition, by way of preface, of the reigns of Charles VIII. and Louis XII.
Page 232 - So much so, that for the last quarter of the century it is with Fontainebleau, rather than with any school in Italy itself, that most of the Italianising artists of Flanders must be connected.
Page 312 - That is an important point in this history, and I am not aware that it has ever been noticed before.
Page 174 - The over-slender proportions," he says, " the free, often graceful, but sometimes extravagant attitudes, show that they already belong to what is called the Epoch of the Renaissance in France, which attained its highest perfection in the socalled School of Fontainebleau.
Page 1 - THE present history embraces the period which extends in France from the accession of Francois I. to the death of Henri IV., with the addition, by way of preface, of the reigns of Charles VIII.
Page 31 - Preux de Marignan, so named because they fought side by side with King Francois I.