French Pand art Theorist , Paris1619-190 Virtual dictator of the arts in France until the death of Colbert in 1683. He established his reputation by a series of decorative schemes, and his own greatest compositions, which immortalize the achievements of the crown, are at Versailles. He became a founder, rector, chancellor, and finally director of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. He was also director of the Gobelins factory and Premier Peintre (1664). His Tent of Darius (1661), for Louis XIV, is a model of legibility, with the explicit and varied gesture and expression of the figures deriving from ideas expressed by Poussin. Lebrun's influential treatise,   Related Paintings of Charles Lebrun :. | equestrian portrait of louis xlv | Portrait of Chancellor Seguier | Daedalus and Icarus | The adoracion of the shepherds | Weinie Mrs. Lebrun self-portrait |
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Francis Swain Ward
1734-1794
Eugenio Landesio
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Mariotto Di Cristofano
San Giovanni Valdarno, 1393 - Firenze, 1457