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Growth of Royal Power

Growth of Royal Power. Forms to Reflect the Substance. Escorial and Versailles. Comparison of Style. The Old Chateau. The Hall of Mirrors, 1685. Produced by the Faubourg Saint-Antoine Glass Manufactory (later moved to Saint-Gobain). Levee. The Queen’s Bed Chamber.

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Growth of Royal Power

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  1. Growth of Royal Power Forms to Reflect the Substance

  2. Escorial and Versailles Comparison of Style

  3. The Old Chateau

  4. The Hall of Mirrors, 1685 Produced by the Faubourg Saint-Antoine Glass Manufactory (later moved to Saint-Gobain)

  5. Levee

  6. The Queen’s Bed Chamber

  7. The Grand and Lesser Stables

  8. The Power of Portraits • Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) • Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) • Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)

  9. Charles I by van Dyck • Van Dyck’s portrait on horseback • Patron of art and artists • Rubens and van Dyck invited to court • Invests in Titians and Raphaels • Connoisseur of Baroque style

  10. Count Olivares and Philip IV Velasquez

  11. Marie de Medici by Rubens • Wife of Henry IV • Mother of Louis XIII • Considered a “handsome, heartless, vulgar woman” • Marriage short and unhappy (follows Henry’s divorce from Marguerite of Valois) • Dauphin 9 at the time of Henry’s assassination

  12. What you do when the facts are too hot to handleMythologize!

  13. Inigo Jones’s Banqueting Hall • Built for James I • Replaced previous one that had burned • Palladian style • Incorporates motifs from Greece and Rome (columns, pilasters, pediments

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