# Charles Le Brun

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Arts & Facts: French Baroque Art -080

The French Academy was chartered in 1648. In 1961 Jean-Baptiste Colbert selected painter Charles Le Brun to be the director of the academy. Modeled after Italian academies, the French Academy sought to train artists in the classical style preferred by the monarchy. French Baroque painters such as…

EP 141: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Versailles)

Send us Fan Mail The Chateau Versailles, just the name evokes glamour, golden splendor and the regal days of France.  We cover it all today on the newest episode of Paris History Avec a Hemingway.   Versailles began in 1604 when Louis XIII would come out to the woods to hunt and decided to build a…

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Hexagon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Paris syndrome (French: syndrome de Paris; Japanese: パリ症候群, romanized: Pari shōkōgun) is a sense of extreme disappointment exhibited by some individuals when…

A Met Curator Tells the Strange Story of Louis XIV's Carpets

This week we travel back to the seventeenth century, to the glorious court of the Sun King, Louis XIV, in France, and his astonishing commission for a suite of ninety-three carpets to cover the 1440-foot-long Grande Galerie at the Louvre, then a royal palace. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is now t…

ADVENT (Week 2, Day 4): Adoration of the Shepherds by Charles Le Brun & Psalm 119

Ask: In what small ways have you seen the true beauty of Advent today? Listen: “Canticle of the Turning” by Emmaus Way https://open.spotify.com/track/3j8k6tT6jczRskPID7KU0C?si=8b4d35020a064ecf  Art: Adoration of the Shepherds (1689), Charles Le Brun   Devotional based on the work Shadow and Lig…

EP 141: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Versailles)

The Chateau Versailles, just the name evokes glamour, golden splendor and the regal days of France.  We cover it all today on the newest episode of Paris History Avec a Hemingway.   Versailles began in 1604 when Louis XIII would come out to the woods to hunt and decided to build a hunting lodge. I…

Aesthetics and empathy, with Joseph Metz and Scott Black

In this episode, Scott Black talks with literary scholar Joseph Metz about The Feeling of the Form: Empathy and Aesthetics from Büchner to Rilke (Cornell University Press), Metz’s cultural and intellectual history of empathy that traces the origins of the concept back to 19th-century German art the…

The Carpets of the Sun King - Once in a Lifetime Viewing

For just seven days, under the beautiful glass-and-iron roof of the Grand Palais, there is a sight that hasn’t ever been seen since they were created in the 17th century. Stretched out across the over 650-foot-long nave, 31 of the 93 carpets intended for the Palais du Louvre and created by Charles …

Vaux-le-Vicomte: The Castle That Built Versailles

On one warm August night in 1661, the richest man in France threw the most dazzling party his country had ever seen — and by dawn he had ruined himself. His name was Nicolas Fouquet, superintendent of finances to the young Louis XIV, and his new château at Vaux-le-Vicomte was the most beautiful ho…