Word: bruns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever Louis XIV wanted, Louis XIV got-in art as well as in life. In payment he gave royal protection, and no one basked more deliciously in the Sun King's rays than Charles Le Brun, "First Painter of the King" and for 20 years the absolute arbiter and benevolent tyrant of le bon gout français. Swept into museum storerooms as succeeding generations downgraded 17th century classicism, Le Brun has been rehabilitated this summer in an almost too complete exhibition at the Château de Versailles...
...Niarchos. France's best-known art auctioneer, Maurice Rheims, receives them in his home and talks to them of French period furniture. The Baron Alexis de Redé entertains the girls in his private apartments at the Hotel Lambert (the oldest occupied mansion in Paris), where, beneath Le Brun's painted ceiling, they sip champagne served by footmen. Duke Philippe de Luynes, president of the French Society for the Protection of Historical Dwellings, escorts them through his castle (Luynes...
According to Painter Charles Le Brun, all art could be reduced to a series of formulas. It should appeal to the mind rather than the eye, must force nature to comply with the rigid rules of perspective, proportion and reason. Since form was more permanent than color, it was also more important. Le Brun even wrote a manual on how to portray each emotion...
Breaking the rules naturally became the sly ambition of the more skilled and spirited artists. One such was Hyacinthe Rigaud, portraitist of the Marquis de Dangeau. Rigaud's primary purpose was obviously to flatter, but in so doing he threw all of Le Brun's strictures out the window. Voluptuous draperies billow in the background in the manner of Rubens. The gold and glitter become a feast not for the mind but the eye; color dominates form, and classicism surrenders to baroque self-indulgence. In few works of art was Louis' age of splendor shown up more...
Pocket Money. In Vancouver. B.C.. after being nabbed with 883 coins in their pockets. Gilbert Meunie and Yvon Le-Brun failed to convince Magistrate Oscar Orr that they were hunting for a rare 1921 nickel, were convicted of parking-meter robbery...