- Louis XIII style
The Louis XIII style or "Louis Treize" was a fashion in French
art andarchitecture , especially effecting the visual anddecorative arts . Its distinctness as a period in the history of French art has much to do with theregency under which Louis XIII began his reign (1610–1643). His mother and regent,Marie de' Medici , importedmannerism from her homeland ofItaly and the influence of Italian art was to be strongly felt for several decades.Louis XIII-style painting was influenced from the north, through Flemish and Dutch Baroque, and from the south, through Italian mannerism and early Baroque. Schools developed around
Caravaggio andPeter Paul Rubens . Among the French painters who blended Italian mannerism with a love ofgenre scenes wereGeorges de la Tour ,Simon Vouet , and the Le Nain brothers. The influence of the painters on subsequent generations, however, was minimised by the rise of classicism underNicolas Poussin and his followers.Louis XIII architecture was equally influenced by Italian styles. The greatest French architect of the era,
Salomon de Brosse , designed thePalais du Luxembourg for Marie de' Medici. De Brosse began a tradition of classicism in architecture that was continued byJacques Lemercier , who completed the Palais and whose own most famous work of the Louis XIII period is the chapel of theSorbonne (1635). Under the next generation of architects, French Baroque would take an even greater classical shift.Furniture of the period was typically large and austere.
References
*Louis XIII style. (2008). In "Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved 1 May 2008, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049090
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