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The Louis XIII style or Louis Treize was a fashion in French art and architecture, especially affecting the visual and decorative arts. Its distinctness as a period in the history of French art has much to do with the regency under which Louis XIII began his reign (1610–1643).
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.
French Baroque architecture, usually called French classicism, was a style of architecture during the reigns of Louis XIII (1610–1643), Louis XIV (1643–1715) and Louis XV (1715–1774). It was preceded by French Renaissance architecture and Mannerism and was followed in the second half of the 18th century by French Neoclassical architecture .
In the early part of the 17th century, late mannerist and early Baroque tendencies continued to flourish in the court of Marie de' Medici and Louis XIII.Art from this period shows influences from both the north of Europe (Dutch and Flemish schools) and from Roman painters of the Counter-Reformation.
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.
On December 19, 1895, Rodin purchased a Louis XIII-style house in brick and stone, built on the heights of Meudon and called "La Villa des Brillants". In 1900, almost 50 people, including sculptor's assistants, workers and casters, were employed there by Rodin and, although he continued to go to his Paris studios daily, his major creative work ...
Domenico Guidi (1625–1701), 2 sculptures : Fame Reviving the History of Louis XIV, Neptune Fountain, Versailles ; Simon Guillain (1581–1658), 5 sculptures : Louis XIV between Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, Musée du Louvre, Paris ; Albert Guillaume (1822–1905), 1 sculpture : Cenotaph of the Gracchi, Musée d'Orsay, Paris