#french baroque

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: The Sacrifice of Iphigenia Artist: François Perrier (French, 1590-1650) Date: 1632-33 Genre: mythological art Period: Baroque Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 213 cm (83.8 in) high x 154 cm (60.6 in) wide Location: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France

This painting depicts the dramatic events surrounding the attempt of the Greek expedition against Troy to set sail. Trapped in harbor by adverse winds, Agamemnon learned that the goddess Artemis demanded the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia if the fleet was to sail. Here, Iphigenia is shown blindfolded in preparation for her death; the executioner holds her by the hair as he looks to Agamemnon, in the background, for confirmation. The figure kneeling in prayer may be Clytemnestra, who is not normally depicted as present at the sacrifice. Above, Artemis, identified with the moon-goddess Selene by the lunar crescent she wears on her brow, prepares to substitute a deer for Iphigenia at the last moment.

François Perrier trained in Rome under Giovanni Lanfranco and brought the full-blown Baroque style from Italy to France. He was one of the founders of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1648.

[meisterdrucke]

Born May 26, 1602 - Philippe de Champaigne turns 424 today. "Jesus Mocked" strips the scene of triumph completely: no radiant divinity, only a bound and exhausted man wrapped in scarlet, enduring humiliation in near-total silence. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

[kecobe]

Concert Valentin de Boulogne (French; 1591–1632) ca. 1615 Oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

[caviarsonoro]

François Couperin: Les Ombres Errantes (25e ordre) · Alexandre Tharaud.

«Les Ombres errantes», the piece that closes the 25th ordre of François Couperin's Quatrième Livre de pièces de clavecin, belongs to the composer's last and most introspective period. The marking Languissamment sets its character from the very start: slow, weakened, suspended music that seems to move forward without finding rest. The voices glide over one another through small descending motions, suspensions, and delicate dissonances, leaving the impression of presences that appear, cross, and fade away again.

The work's emotion arises not from an expansive melody or a grand climax, but from a succession of minimal tensions. Each chord seems to open an instant of calm, yet that calm never fully settles. The ornaments prolong the notes, delay the resolutions, and turn each phrase into a fragile breath. Couperin thus builds a restrained melancholy, closer to memory and absence than to open grief, as if the "wandering shadows" of the title were images returning in incomplete form.

In Alexandre Tharaud's interpretation, the piece takes on a strongly atmospheric dimension. The modern piano lets him widen the resonance, grade the intensity, and let the sounds fade slowly into silence. Tharaud does not try to imitate the harpsichord but to carry its language over to the piano, with a delicate touch, a flexible tempo, and a very measured use of the pedal. His reading turns the work into an almost spectral meditation, where each note seems to hang suspended between memory and disappearance.

[xostargirlox]

Hell — François de Nomé (1622)

[luxus-aeterna]

little Versailles in dtla

[victoriaswillow]

𝘛𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 📸

Built 1896-1899

[windebris]

actually no i want to yap about this

y'all know versailles, right? big massive palace in france (not paris tho) where louis xiv the sun king lived

yeah that place. has the hall of mirrors that every western art history class ever shows

cool yeah whatever. LOOK AT THIS FOUNTAIN

tecnhically, it's called the ballroom grove, because its kind of an amphitheater and kind of an outdoor dance hall. they hosted a dinner there when it was completed (louis xiv's son, not the dude himself). it has an eight level cascade waterfall. EIGHT.

this is the grove of the three fountains. LOOK AT THOSE JETS! 140 WATER JETS!!! it was restored in 2005 and ohhh she is so beautiful. imagine walking past that. imagine the smell of running water. imagine STUDYING by that!!!

apollo's bath grove has gotta be my favorite. massive man-made rock, enough said. but also waterfalls that look natural!! but they're not!! as a themed entertainment nerd, that is my absolute JAM. there's a grotto! there's horses! there's a lil pond! what more could you want!

there's also a bunch of circular fountains, the type you'd imagine when someone says "fountain." there's one directly in front of the palace, one a bit Further in front of the palace, and a couple more dotted about.

here's latona's fountain, my favorite of the round fellas, which has a bunch of statues intended to tell the story of latona/leto, apollo and artemis/diana's mother in mythos. according to the versailles website, she's "protecting her children from the insults of the peasants of Lycia and pleading with Jupiter to avenge her. The god obliges by turning the inhabitants of Lycia into frogs and lizards." rad.

but yeah. baroque art is rad (love tenebrism, love pieter claesz), but the french baroque is super cool bc not only is it on par technique-wise with the rest of europe, but it is SUPER glitzy and gold. they also use a lot more classical themes (myth and bible) than dutch or even spanish art during the time, which i love bc i was a mythology kid

xoxo your local theme park nerd who was given access to university classes