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    recent work wholly devoted to Félibien is Stefan Germer, Kunst, Macht, Diskurs. Die intellektuelle Karriere des André Félibien im Frankreich von Louis XIV...
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    genres, confirming the history painting at the top, was made in 1667 by André Félibien, a historiographer, architect and theoretician of French classicism...
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    ideal." Where earlier critics such as Vasari in the 16th century and André Félibien in the 17th praised the picture for its realism, by the mid-19th century...
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    blissful utopia of Arcadia, death still exists. Another biographer, André Félibien, interpreted the 'I' to refer to the occupant of the tomb, but still...
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    included producing the most factual description of Judgement possible: André Félibien noted simply and conclusively that Judgement is admirable for the correction...
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    complex. In his 1674 publication about the grand appartement du roi, André Félibien described the scenes depicted in the coves of the ceilings of the rooms...
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  • theatre of the Palais-Royal beginning on 9 November 1668. Court historian André Félibien summarized the play in the official brochure (1668) this way: "The subject...
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    published in Rome, 1672. Poussin's other contemporary biographer was André Félibien. W. Liedtke (2007) Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
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  • create or of the subject." As late as the end of the 17th century, André Félibien (1619–75) would write that the painter is "so to speak [a] creator."...
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  • Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640); Le peintre parfait (1767 by André Félibien; and Idée de la perfection de la peinture (1662) by Fréart de Chambray...
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    L. Bernard, Libraire-Editeur. Félibien, André. Description sommaire du chasteau de Versailles. (Paris, 1674). Félibien, Jean-François. Description sommaire...
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    would stand him in good stead. Another early friend and biographer, André Félibien, reported that "He was busy without cease filling his sketchbooks with...
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    whose wooden model for the design survived long enough to be drawn by André Félibien in the 17th century. In the drawings of the model, the main staircase...
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    article in the French Wikipedia version 12 juin 2014 à 10:21. Félibien 1706. Sources Félibien, Michel (1706). Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Denys...
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    combined with figure subjects. An influential formulation of 1667 by André Félibien, a historiographer, architect and theoretician of French classicism...
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    Cordier André Dacier Léopold Delisle Jean Denis, comte Lanjuinais Gabriel Devéria Louis Duchesne Émile Egger Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès André Félibien Jean...
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    mathematician and engineer François Blondel (1618–1686), and the secretary was André Félibien (1619 –1695). The academy was housed in the Louvre for most of its existence...
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    painting to be considered great. An influential formulation of 1667 by André Félibien, a historiographer, architect and theoretician of French classicism...
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    critic and official court historian André Félibien, who was appointed in 1673. About 1674 the Duke of Orléans had André Le Nôtre redesign the gardens of...
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    (born 1979), football player Nicolas Escudé (born 1976), tennis player André Félibien (1619–1695), architect and historiographer Achille Guenée (1809–1880)...
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    maintained a hierarchy of genres in painting (the "noblest," according to André Félibien in 1667, being history painting), a strong use of pictorial rhetoric...
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    on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien. The work that came to have the most influence on Reynolds was Jonathan...
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    who gives a family name Bernabei in his Abecedario. It was drawn by André Félibien for his Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire des maisons royalles (1681)...
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    Detail of engraving from book, André Félibien, Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dépendent, 1676...
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    rubeus, caeruleus Simple colors c. 1664 Robert Boyle Yellow, red, blue Simple, primary c. 1680 André Félibien Jaune, rouge, bleu Principal, primitive...
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  • April 23 – Henry Vaughan, Welsh metaphysical poet (born 1622) June 11 – André Félibien, French court historian (born 1619) August 12 – Huang Zongxi, Chinese...
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    compensate for the miserable living conditions mortals must endure. André Félibien, the friend and biographer of Poussin, explained the picture in the...
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    Versailles, especially the Grotto of Thetis (completed 1668, described by André Félibien, 1676 and demolished for the enlargement of the château 1686). Members...
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    V, 2 : Sainte-Chapelle" in Turner 1996, vol. 24, pp. 156–157. Félibien, André; Félibien, Jean-François (1725). Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages...
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  • a leader of the Russian Old Believers, beheaded (b. unknown) 1695 – André Félibien, French historian and author (b. 1619) 1712 – Louis Joseph, Duke of...
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