The Academy

Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture France,

1648 - Present

Nicolas de Largillière,Portrait of Charles Le Brun,1686

Charles Le Brun 1619 – 90

First Painter to the King, 1661 onwards,

Director of the Academie royale, from 1685

The ‘art dictator of France’

Charles Le Brun, The Sacrifice of Polyxène,c.1647

Nicholas Poussin, The Holy Family on the Stepz,, 1630

Charles Le Brun, the Triumph of Hercules, Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, 1658

Louis XIV as Apollo Paris, 1652

Plaisirs de l’Île enchantée: Court Ballet ‘La Princesse d'Elide’ at Versailles, Versailles, 1664

Louis Le Vau, Palace of Versailles, 1664-1710

Louis Le Vau, Palace of Versailles, 1664-1710

Louis Le Vau and André Le Nôtre, Palace of Versailles, 1664-1710

Jean Nocret, Louis XIV and his Family, Versailles 1670

Charles Le Brun, The King Governs Alone, Versailles, 1678

Charles Le Brun, Prise de la ville et de la citadelle de Gand en six jours, ,Versailles, 1678

Charles Le Brun, Prise de la ville et de la citadelle de Gand en six jours, Versailles, 1678

Charles Le Brun, Alexander in the Tent of Darius, Versailles, 1672

Charles Le Brun, Alexander’s Enrty into Babylon, Versailles, 1672

Charles Le Brun, Alexander Entering Babylon, 1680

Charles Le Brun, Louis XIV Visiting the Goeblins Tapestry Factory, Versailles 1673

*

Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV,Versailles, 1701

Francois Giruadon, Louis XIV,Louvre, 1692

The Academic Method

The Hierarchy of Subjects

History PaintingPortraiture

Genre

Still LifeLandscape