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Gisant of Louis XII. Louis is shown in the interior as a gaunt, rotting and naked recumbent cadaver, his head resting on a stone pillow. [4] His death mask is a remarkably realistic depiction of the recently dead: his eyes are sunken into his skull, his skin is taut, his neck is especially emaciated, and his hair is very thin.
Jean-Baptiste Roman was commissioned to carry out this marble sculpture in 1832 and it was completed by Rude, after Roman's death in 1835. [11] Statue of Louis XIII Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts: 1843 The Duke of Luynes, owner of the Château de Dampiere, commissioned a statue of Louis XIII at the age of sixteen.
Statue of Thomas the Apostle, with the features of restorer Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, at the base of the spire. This is a list of sculptures in Notre-Dame de Paris.. Stone, copper, and bronze statues, including statues of the twelve Apostles that surrounded the base of the spire, had been removed from the site days prior to the 2019 fire as part of the renovations.
Louis XIII Crowned by Victory (1635) by Philippe de Champaigne. Louis XIII Crowned by Victory is a 1635 oil on canvas painting by Philippe de Champaigne. [1] [2] Probably commissioned by Cardinal Richelieu, it shows Louis XIII, King of France, crowned by a personification of Victory to mark his forces' victory in the Siege of La Rochelle.
The last painting in the cycle, The Triumph of Truth, is a purely allegorical depiction of King Louis XIII and his mother, the Queen, reconciling before heaven. [108] The Queen and Louis XIII are depicted floating in heaven, connected by the symbol of concordia, which demonstrates her sons’ forgiveness and the peace that was reached between them.
Mathurine de Vallois, also known as Mathurine la Folle ('Mathurine the Fool') (fl. 1589 – fl. 1627), was a French jester.She was the jester of the court of French kings Henry III, Henry IV and Louis XIII, successively.
This statue followed the traditions of heroic sculpture, presenting him a triumphal pose, holding his marshal's baton. He also had patrons in the nobility; in 1843, he created a statue in silver of the adolescent Louis XIII, for the Duc de Luynes, whose family had been ennobled by Lous XIII. It was later recast in bronze.
Louis XIII appears in novels of Robert Merle's Fortune de France series (1977–2003). Louis XIII was portrayed by Edward Arnold in the 1935 film Cardinal Richelieu, with George Arliss portraying the Cardinal. Ken Russell directed the 1971 film The Devils, in which Louis XIII is a significant character, albeit one with no resemblance to the ...