The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV

by Wolf Burchard

This monograph examines the wide artistic production of Louis XIV's most prolific and powerful artist, Charles Le Brun (1619-1690), illustrating the magnificence of his paintings and focusing particularly on the interiors and decorative art works produced according to his designs. In his joint capacities of Premier peintre du roi, director of the Gobelins manufactory and rector of the Acad mie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Le Brun exercised...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911300059
• ISBN13: 9781911300052
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.6" x 11.1"