The high Baroque style from Rome is slower to arrive in France than elsewhere in Europe, as a strict classicism prevails for much of the seventeenth century. In the latter half of the period, France is the seat of the Enlightenment, a major intellectual movement that asserts the power of reason and mobilizes a widespread dissatisfaction with contemporary social and political ills that results, later in the century, in revolution.
With the Enlightenment comes a renewed veneration of antiquity and a Neoclassical movement in the arts; this gives way, at the end of the period, to Romanticism. Peter Paul Rubens — , a Flemish master whose international renown stretches from Northern Europe and his native Antwerp to Southern Europe and the Italian peninsula, is active at the French court. The far-reaching influence of Rubens is felt by the late seventeenth century and extends well into the eighteenth.
Thereafter the Cardinal Richelieu rises steadily in power, and as his influence as a public figure increases, so too does his ambition as a patron. In his professional capacities, Richelieu is involved in many royal projects, including the decoration of the Palais du Luxembourg and the summoning of Italian artists to France. He funds numerous projects of his own as well; of particular note is the renovation of buildings at the Sorbonne from the late s into the s.
While he is among the first artists to introduce elements of the Italian Baroque into French painting, the Caravaggesque style he practices in Rome soon gives way to a sensuous, decorative approach that points toward the Rococo.
The Le Nain family of painters—Antoine ? While the brothers often collaborate, each excels in a different aspect of painting. Antoine is a skilled miniaturist, Mathieu a portraitist , and Louis conceives of genre scenes such as the Peasant Family Louvre that imbue their subjects, often treated humorously or satirically by other contemporary artists, with a classicizing dignity.
Of less emotional intensity but lacking none of the immediacy of this series are works he produces between and for the Medici in Florence. Georges de La Tour — is named painter to the king. Active in his native Lorraine, La Tour is among the finest Northern artists working in a Caravaggesque style. The Fortune Teller These characteristics combine with simple geometry of form and a meditative mood in the pictures for which he is chiefly known, including several compositions of the Magdalen and a canvas of Joseph the Carpenter Louvre.
Between and , Poussin is active in Italy; he first travels to Venice and is influenced by the poetic mythological subjects and warm palette of Titian , and later settles in Rome.
There, inspired by Raphael and works of classical antiquity, he develops a style of painting that aims through subject matter, clarity of composition, and precision of gesture and detail to convey the nobility of human actions.
Dissatisfied with French court life, he returns to Italy by ; his work nevertheless sets the tone for a classicism that prevails in French art throughout the century.
He does this mostly through astute diplomacy, as earlier schemes of taxation stir waves of unrest that culminate in a series of uprisings known as the Fronde — With his chief advisor Jean-Baptiste Colbert — , he devises elaborate systems of domestic government and court policy designed to exert complete control over his subjects and curtail the power of the nobility.
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