The Academy
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture France, 1648 - Present
Nicolas de Largillière, Portrait of Charles Le Brun, 1686
Charles Le Brun 1619 – 90 First Painter to the King, 1661 onwards, Director of the Academie royale, from 1685 The ‘art dictator of France’
Charles Le Brun, The Sacrifice of Polyxène,
Nicholas Poussin, The Holy Family on the Stepz,, 1630
Charles Le Brun, the Triumph of Hercules, Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, 1658
Louis XIV as Apollo Paris, 1652
Plaisirs de l’Île enchantée: Court Ballet ‘La Princesse d'Elide’ at Versailles, Versailles, 1664
Louis Le Vau, Palace of Versailles, 1664-1710
Louis Le Vau, Palace of Versailles, 1664-1710
Louis Le Vau and André Le Nôtre, Palace of Versailles, 1664-1710
Jean Nocret, Louis XIV and his Family, Versailles 1670
Charles Le Brun, The King Governs Alone, Versailles, 1678
Charles Le Brun, ,Versailles, 1678 Prise de la ville et de la citadelle de Gand en six jours, ,Versailles, 1678
Charles Le Brun, Prise de la ville et de la citadelle de Gand en six jours, Versailles, 1678
Charles Le Brun, Alexander in the Tent of Darius, Versailles, 1672
Charles Le Brun, Alexander’s Enrty into Babylon, Versailles, 1672
Charles Le Brun, Alexander Entering Babylon, 1680
Charles Le Brun, Louis XIV Visiting the Goeblins Tapestry Factory, Versailles 1673 *
Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, Versailles, 1701
Francois Giruadon, Louis XIV, Louvre, 1692
The Academic Method
The Hierarchy of Subjects History Painting Portraiture Genre Landscape Still Life