The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 266
wer, to subserve and con-tribute to its pomp. For even art inthe seventeenth century was kept intutelage. Mazarin and Colbert foundedthe Academies of Painting, Sculpture,and Architecture. Le Brun, who waslife director of the Academy of Paint-ing, and ruled from 1648 till his death in1690,… … FIG. 478.—THE FORD.CLAUDE LORHAIN. (The Ix)uvre.) The greatest artist of the period,Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), passednearly his whole life in Italy. Sum-moned to Paris in 1641 to direct certainofficial works, he was so disgusted bythe intrigues of the Court that he madea pretext for returning to…
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