Who put France in the forefront of European art?
Le Brun
Who else?
Versailles
What are artistic revolutions?
forms of art having gone through periodic abrupt changes
What did paintings glorify in the 17th century?
aristocracy
What was classicism?
a painting style, enduring in later artists like Ingres, whose austerity and grandeur express the authority of a world where Jove is very much in his throne.
If changes to art were abrupt, what were they called?
artistic revolutions
Why have the best artists predated changes in society?
sensitive perceptivity is part of their talent of seeing
What kind of art owes the most to state power?
French painting
Who launched the age of absolute monarchy?
Louix XIV
As times change, what else does too?
art
Who found its mirror in the idea of classicism?
Versailles
What do artists who've succeeded often have to do?
navigate an often treacherous path between their own capacity to see and execute what lesser artists could not, while still appealing to powerful patrons who could finance their visions