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The painting portrays the visit of the king Charles III of Spain to Pope Benedict XIV, in Rome, with whom he had close friendship since the signature of the Agreement of 1741, after the victory of the Bourbon troops over the Austrian ones in 1744 in Velletri. [2].
The House of Bourbon (English: / ˈ b ʊər b ən /, also UK: / ˈ b ɔːr b ɒ n /; French:) is a dynasty that originated in the Kingdom of France as a branch of the Capetian dynasty, the royal House of France. Bourbon kings first ruled France and Navarre in the 16th century.
As the wife of the heir to the throne she was likely to become Queen consort of France but the Bourbon dynasty were overthrown in the July Revolution of 1830. The painting was commissioned by her uncle (and father-in-law) the future Charles X for the Chamber of Deputies. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1817 at the Louvre.
Portrait of the Duchess of Berry is an 1824 portrait painting by the French artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun depicting the Italian Marie-Caroline, Duchess of Berry, a member of the reigning Bourbon Dynasty of France. [1] Le Brun had been a leading painter of Ancien Regime France, associated with Marie Antoinette.
Montague Dawson was the son of a keen yachtsman and the grandson of the marine painter Henry Dawson (1811-1878), and was born in Chiswick, London.Much of his childhood was spent on Southampton Water where he was able to indulge his interest in the study of ships.
The French Restoration style was predominantly Neoclassicism, though it also showed the beginnings of Romanticism in music and literature. The term describes the arts, architecture, and decorative arts of the Bourbon Restoration period (1814–1830), during the reign of Louis XVIII and Charles X from the fall of Napoleon to the July Revolution of 1830 and the beginning of the reign of Louis ...
Unknown at the time, Berry's wife Marie Caroline was pregnant with a son Henri whose birth in September 1820 seemed to secure the future of the Bourbon dynasty. [4] The painting features notable figures of the Restoration era who crowd around the wounded Duke including his uncle, King Louis XVIII, his father the Count of Artois, his elder ...
Charles of Bourbon Visiting Pope Benedict XIV at the Coffee House del Quirinale (1746) by Giovanni Paolo Pannini. Charles of Bourbon Visiting Pope Benedict XIV at the Coffee House del Quirinale is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian painter Giovanni Paolo Pannini, commissioned by Charles of Bourbon in 1746 and completed the same year.