Portrait of Louis XIV in Coronation Robes was painted in 1701 by the French painter Hyacinthe Rigaud after being commissioned by the king who wanted to...
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Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King...
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The Louis XIV style or Louis Quatorze (/ˌluːi kæˈtɔːrz, - kəˈ-/ LOO-ee ka-TORZ, - kə-, French: [lwi katɔʁz] ), also called French classicism, was the...
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Louis XIV (1638–1715), the Bourbon monarch of the Kingdom of France, was the son of King Louis XIII of France and Queen Anne. The descendants of Louis...
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The Bust of Louis XIV is a marble portrait by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was created in the year 1665 during Bernini's visit to Paris...
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new, and offered Hyacinthe Rigaud's portrait of Louis XIV of France depicting his "bitchy resting face". Levels of resting bitch face can vary greatly...
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Hyacinthe Rigaud (category French portrait painters)
famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French nobility. Rigaud was born in Perpignan, then part of the Crown of Aragon, a few months...
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Charles Le Brun (category Academic staff of the École des Beaux-Arts)
a director of several art schools of his time. He served as a court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of all time". Le...
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French fashion (section Fashion in royal portraits)
demands of royal propaganda. There is no better illustration of this than in Hyacinthe Rigaud's frequently-reproduced Portrait of Louis XIV of 1701, in...
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The Death of Louis XIV (French: La Mort de Louis XIV) is a 2016 historical drama film directed by Albert Serra and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud. Set in 1715...
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Tsarsky titulyarnik (category Alexis of Russia)
arms of Russia Portrait of Alexis of Russia Portrait of Patriarch Joasaphus II of Moscow Portrait of Louis XIV Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tsarsky...
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clearly shown in a family portrait of Louis XIV. Papillons are also in paintings of royal families around Europe and paintings of merchant-class families...
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King Louis XIV and his spouse, Maria Theresa of Spain. He became known as the Grand Dauphin after the birth of his own son, Louis, Duke of Burgundy, the...
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Herrenchiemsee (category Ludwig II of Bavaria)
Ludwig's admiration of King Louis XIV of France. Its great Hall of Mirrors' ceiling is painted with 25 frescoes showing Louis XIV at his best. The palace...
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Perrault, 17th century, attributed Louis XIII Crowned by Victory, 1635, Louvre Portrait of Louis XIV, then Dauphin of France, 1642, Musée des Beaux-Arts...
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L'Enseigne de Gersaint (redirect from Shop-sign of Gersaint)
packs away a portrait of Louis XIV at the left, in the centre a young man offers his hand to a woman who is stepping over the threshold of the shop. At...
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Getty Center (category Culture of Los Angeles)
for an Old Master painting". A copy of Portrait of Louis XIV, which measures 114 x 62-5/8 inches, by the workshop of Hyacinthe Rigaud (after 1701). Getty's...
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François Bluche (category Winners of the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature))
largely positive portrait of Louis XIV in his biography, attributing to him substantial cultural and political achievements. Bluche saw Louis as a precursor...
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Philippe-Charles, Duke of Anjou (5 August 1667 – 10 July 1671) was the fifth child and second son of King Louis XIV of France and Maria Theresa of Spain, and as...
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Edict of Fontainebleau (18 October 1685, published 22 October 1685) was an edict issued by French King Louis XIV and is also known as the Revocation of the...
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Louise de La Vallière (category Mistresses of Louis XIV)
Blanc, Duchess of La Vallière and Vaujours (6 August 1644 – 6 June 1710) was a French noblewoman and the mistress of King Louis XIV of France from 1661...
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Absolute monarchy in France (category Political history of the Ancien Régime)
any written laws, legislature, or customs. In France, Louis XIV was the most famous exemplar of absolute monarchy, with his court central to French political...
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Dauphin, and Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria and grandson of the reigning French king, Louis XIV. He was known as the "Petit Dauphin" to distinguish him...
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Milk kinship (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
a non-biological mother, was a form of fostering allegiance with fellow community members. This particular form of kinship did not exclude particular groups...
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grandson of King Louis XIV of France was named as his successor, to preclude the union of the thrones of France and Spain. The prince, then Duke of Anjou...
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Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine (31 March 1670 – 14 May 1736) was an illegitimate son of Louis XIV and his official mistress, Madame de Montespan...
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Simon François de Tours (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, volume 1)
him a present of his portrait, painted by himself. On his return to France he settled in Paris, where he painted the portrait of Louis XIV as Dauphin, and...
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Nine Years' War (redirect from War of the League of Augsburg)
North America. Louis XIV of France emerged from the Franco-Dutch War in 1678 as the most powerful monarch in Europe. Using a combination of aggression, annexation...
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Antoine Dieu (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, volume 1)
of Burgundy before the King and the Marriage of the Duke of Burgundy are in the Museum at Versailles, but his best work is the portrait of Louis XIV....
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Louis Alexandre de Bourbon (6 June 1678 – 1 December 1737), a legitimated prince of the blood royal, was the son of Louis XIV and of his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs...
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