biography
pronunciation:
[vooay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1590–1649)
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| biography:
| Baroque painter, born in Paris, France. He spent 14 years in Italy (1614–27), and on his return to Paris became first painter to the king and began a career which would make him the most influential painter in France. He taught Lebrun and Le Sueur and was a contemporary of Poussin, who criticized him but who was not a serious rival during his lifetime. His paintings with religious and allegorical themes gained him great popularity, and include ‘Le Temps vaincu par l'Amour’, ‘Venus et Espérance’, and ‘Présentation au Temple’ (1641). His pupils included Le Brun. |
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