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Luçon. Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (French: [aʁmɑ̃ ʒɑ̃ dy plɛsi]; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, [a] was a French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsize influence in civil and religious affairs. He became known as l'Éminence Rouge (English: " the Red Eminence "), a term ...
The Triple Portrait of Cardinal de Richelieu is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Philippe de Champaigne, completed c. 1642. The portrait shows Cardinal de Richelieu from three angles: right profile, face on, and left profile. The painting was made as a study for a bust to be made by an Italian sculptor in Rome.
The Bust of Cardinal Richelieu is a marble sculpture by the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, situated at the Louvre in Paris.. Richelieu had hoped to commission Bernini to make a full-length sculpture, through his friend Jules Mazarin and the French ambassador in Rome François Annibal d'Estrées, but Pope Urban VIII would not permit it, so the sculpture became a bust, sculpted by ...
Cromwell's head remained on a spike above Westminster Hall until at least 1684, not counting a temporary removal for roof maintenance in 1681. [3] Although no firm evidence has been established for the whereabouts of the head from 1684 to 1710, [4] the circumstances in which Cromwell's head came into private ownership are rumoured to be tied with a great storm towards the end of James II's ...
Aug. 12, 2024, marks the 400th anniversary of Cardinal Richelieu assuming the post of the First Minister of France. Born in Paris in 1585, by 1608, the 21-year-old Armand Jean du Plessis became a ...
Accession. 1987. Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu is a portrait painting by the Flemish -born French painter Philippe de Champaigne, Richelieu's favourite portraitist. It was painted a few months before the cardinal's death, in 1642, and is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg. Its inventory number is 987–2–1.
Cardinal Richelieu. Design and construction. Architect (s) Jacques Lemercier. The Château de Richelieu was an enormous 17th-century château (manor house) built by the French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642) in Touraine. It was demolished for building materials in 1805 and almost nothing of it remains today.
The project started in 1627, with work on the chapel beginning in 1635 and completed in 1642, the year of Richelieu's death. [ 1 ] The previous chapel was demolished (shown today as an outline on the floor of the cour d'honneur of the Sorbonne), and the new chapel was established on the site of the former collège de Calvy.