1. The Academy

2. Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture France, 1648 - Present

3. Nicolas de Largillière,
Portrait of Charles Le Brun,
1686

4. Charles Le Brun 1619 – 90
First Painter to the King, 1661 onwards, Director of the Academie royale, from 1685 The ‘art dictator of France’

5. Charles Le Brun, The Sacrifice of Polyxène,

6. Nicholas Poussin, The Holy Family on the Stepz,, 1630

7. Charles Le Brun, the Triumph of Hercules, Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, 1658

8. Louis XIV as Apollo
Paris, 1652

9. Plaisirs de l’Île enchantée: Court Ballet ‘La Princesse d'Elide’ at Versailles, Versailles, 1664

10. Louis Le Vau, Palace of Versailles, 1664-1710

11. Louis Le Vau, Palace of Versailles, 1664-1710

12. Louis Le Vau and André Le Nôtre, Palace of Versailles, 1664-1710

13. Jean Nocret, Louis XIV and his Family, Versailles 1670

15. Charles Le Brun,
The King Governs Alone,
Versailles, 1678

16. Charles Le Brun, ,Versailles, 1678
Prise de la ville et de la citadelle de Gand en six jours,
,Versailles, 1678

17. Charles Le Brun,
Prise de la ville et de la citadelle de Gand en six jours, Versailles, 1678

18. Charles Le Brun, Alexander in the Tent of Darius, Versailles, 1672

19. Charles Le Brun, Alexander’s Enrty into Babylon, Versailles, 1672

24. Charles Le Brun, Alexander Entering Babylon, 1680

25. Charles Le Brun, Louis XIV Visiting the Goeblins Tapestry Factory, Versailles 1673*

26. Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV,
Versailles, 1701

27. Francois Giruadon, Louis XIV,
Louvre, 1692

31. The Academic Method

33. The Hierarchy of Subjects
History Painting
Portraiture
Genre
Landscape
Still Life