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20 May, 02:45

Claude Perrault. East Front of the Louvre - Paris (c. 1667-70). Adopted as the official artistic style and applied even to architecture. This Baroque era design will establish what movement?

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  1. 20 May, 03:31
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    French Classicism

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    When baroque aesthetics prevailed in Europe, a peculiar classicism was reborn in France, whose moment of splendor from 1654 to 1715 occurred in the reign of Louis XIV. The painter Charles Le Brun and the writer Nicolas Boileau, author of L'art poetique (1674), a very influential work, officially imposed this style.

    In the reign of Louis XIV, the desire to glorify royalty - proper to monarchical absolutism - gave way to a majestic and imposing style. Its architectural paradigm was the palace of Versailles, reformed and enlarged successively by architects like Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart.

    In 1667, the construction of the Louvre façade began with the architect Claude Perrault, "La Colonnada" (1664 - 1668). The pure French classicism that will mark the entire period of regency of this king.
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