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Baroque Art in France

Baroque Art in France. Portrait of Henry VIII Hans Holbein the Younger 1540 oil on panel In this portrait, Henry is 49 years old. How has power been constructed through this image?. Louis XIV 1701 Hyacinthe Rignaud oil on canvas

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Baroque Art in France

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  1. Baroque Art in France

  2. Portrait of Henry VIII Hans Holbein the Younger1540oil on panel In this portrait, Henry is 49 years old. How has power been constructed through this image?

  3. Louis XIV 1701 Hyacinthe Rignaud oil on canvas the Sun King, age 63—he succeeded to the crown at age five; he died when he was 77. He was king for seventy-two years. How has power been constructed through this image? Hints: ermine, sword, classical architecture, crown, fluer-de-lis, gaze of the subject... How has the subject’s gender been constructed—emphasized? What seems contradictory to our contemporary eye? Hints: high-heeled shoes, stockings, long luxuriant locks, femininized pose of the lower-half of his body...

  4. RaphaelPope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi1518-19 oil on wood Donatello Judith and Holofernes 1455-60bronzePalazzo Vecchio Florence

  5. Consider how these images are also used to construct power.

  6. Louis XIV 1701 Hyacinthe Rignaud Van EyckArnolfini Portrait 1434

  7. Louis XIV 1694 Hyacinthe Rigaud How has power been constructed differently through this image? This image was made only seven years earlier when Louis was 56.

  8. Portrait of Louis XIV as a ChildClaude Mellan1644-45black chalk When this six-year old king reached the age of thirty, he decided to build.

  9. Palais de Versailles Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart 1668-85 Andre Le Notre designed the gardens.

  10. Palais de Versailles Louis Le Vau Jules Hardouin-Mansart 1668-85 Andre Le Notre designed the gardens. See the official website: en.chateauversailles.fr

  11. The original Versailles hunting chateau built by Louis XIII. Eventually 5,000 nobles along with 14,000 servants lived in the Versailles Palace; 30,000 residents lived in the town along with 15,000 other French nobles.

  12. Hall of Mirrors Do you remember the Treaty of Versailles that formally ended WWI? The treaty was signed in this room on 29 June 1919. Think of that moment as the beginning of WWII. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIDU39xVcyQ (38:55)

  13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESUzbLWuzY8

  14. The Petit Trianon which Louis XV had built for his mistress Madame de Pompadour; she died before the building was completed so Madame du Barry lived there.

  15. Plan of Palais de Versailles Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart 1668-85 Andre Le Notre designed the gardens.

  16. http://www.worldsiteguides.com/europe/france/chateau-de-versailles/video/http://www.worldsiteguides.com/europe/france/chateau-de-versailles/video/

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