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LE BRUN, Charles
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Entry_of_Alexander_into_Babylon_h
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c._1664
Oil_on_canvas,_450_x_707_cm
Mus??e_du_Louvre,_Paris
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Entry of Alexander into Babylon h
LE BRUN, Charles1.jpg
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| c. 1664
Oil on canvas, 450 x 707 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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French painter (b. 1619, Paris, d. 1690, Paris)
French painter and designer. He dominated 17th-century French painting as no other artist; it was not until over a century later, during the predominance of Jacques-Louis David, that artistic authority was again so concentrated in one man. Under the protection of a succession of important political figures, including Chancellor Pierre S?guier, Cardinal Richelieu and Nicolas Fouquet, Le Brun created a series of masterpieces of history and religious painting. For Louis XIV and his chief minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert he executed his greatest work, the royal palace of Versailles: an almost perfect ensemble of architecture, decoration and landscape. After Colbert's death in 1683, he was no longer able to count on prestigious commissions
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