Growth of Royal Power
Forms to Reflect the Substance
Escorial and Versailles
Comparison of Style
The Old Chateau
The Hall of Mirrors, 1685
Produced by the Faubourg Saint-Antoine Glass Manufactory (later moved to Saint-Gobain)
Levee
The Queen’s Bed Chamber
The Grand and Lesser Stables
The Power of Portraits
• Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)• Diego Velazquez (1599-1660)• Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
Charles I by van Dyck
• Van Dyck’s portrait on horseback
• Patron of art and artists• Rubens and van Dyck
invited to court• Invests in Titians and
Raphaels• Connoisseur of Baroque
style
Count Olivares and Philip IV Velasquez
Marie de Medici by Rubens• Wife of Henry IV• Mother of Louis XIII• Considered a “handsome,
heartless, vulgar woman”• Marriage short and
unhappy (follows Henry’s divorce from Marguerite of Valois)
• Dauphin 9 at the time of Henry’s assassination
What you do when the facts are too hot to handleMythologize!
Inigo Jones’s Banqueting Hall
• Built for James I• Replaced previous one
that had burned• Palladian style• Incorporates motifs
from Greece and Rome (columns, pilasters, pediments