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  Célébrations nationales 2002 - Philippe de Champaigne
Champaigne est, en revanche, très goûté par une clientèle qui lui commande des portraits.
Il donne de nombreux tableaux pour les deux monastères de Paris et des Champs.
Le gouverneur des Pays-Bas espagnols, l'archiduc Léopold de Habsbourg, lui a commandé, en 1656, un tableau, de même que les brasseurs de la ville de Gand.
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  Philippe de Champaigne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philippe de Champaigne (26 May 1602 - 12 August 1674) was a Baroque era painter of the French school.
Born in Brussels of a poor family, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquières.
After the death of his protector Duchesne, Champaigne worked for the Queen Mother, Marie de Medicis, and for Richelieu, for whom he decorated the cardinal's palace, the Dome of the Sorbonne church and other buildings.
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 PHILIPPE DE CHAMPAIGNE - LoveToKnow Article on PHILIPPE DE CHAMPAIGNE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
CHAMPAIGNE, PHILIPPE DE (1602-1674), Belgian painter of the French school, was born at Brussels of a poor family.
After the death of Du Chesne, Philippe became first painter to the queen of France, and ultimately rector of the Academy of Paris.
Philippe was a good man, indefatigable, earnest and scrupulously religious.
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 Philippe de Champaigne -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Philippe de Champaigne (May 26, 1602- August 12, 1674), (Elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century) Baroque era painter of the French school, was born at (The capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Brussels of a poor family.
After the death of his protector Duchesne, Philippe worked for the Queen Mother, (additional info and facts about Marie de Medicis) Marie de Medicis, and for (French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642)) Richelieu, for whom he decorated the cardinal's palace, the Dome of the Sorbonne church and other buildings.
Later in his life (1640), he came under the influence of (The Roman Catholic doctrine of Cornelis Jansen and his disciples; salvation is limited to those who are subject to supernatural determinism and the rest are assigned to perdition) Jansenism.
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 ART / 4 / 2DAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Champaigne then worked for the queen mother, Marie de Medicis, for Louis XIII, and after 1635 primarily for the king's chief minister, Cardinal Armand Richelieu, for whom he decorated the Palais Royal, the dome of the Sorbonne, and other buildings.
Philippe de Champaigne is concerned for historical accuracy and respectful of Christian virtues.
— Cardinal Richelieu (1637, 260x178cm) _ Born in Brussels, Philippe de Champaigne settled in Paris in 1621 and became one of the city's leading artists, painting portraits and religious compositions for the Queen Mother, Marie de' Medici, the court of Louis XIII, the city administration, fashionable congregations and private individuals.
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 Timken Museum: Philippe de Champaigne
Basing his painting on the parable of Christ healing the blind in Matthew 20:29-34, Champaigne shows Christ pointing his right hand to--and healing--two blind men, kneeling on the far left.
In his later years, Champaigne painted a number of landscapes--an interest revealed in this work with its emphasis on the landscape setting of the parable.
A bridge leads to a walled town and to the steep promontory and imposing mountains in the distance.
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 LRB | Peter Campbell : At the Villa Medici   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Champaigne, by contrast, claims his place in the structures of state and church and acknowledges their authority.
The theologian Pierre de Bérulle, consoling Henrietta Maria, then on her way to wed Charles I in the desert of Protestant England, offered Mary Magdalene as an example, maintaining that she came from a good family (as did St John before he abandoned society) and was of irreproachable character - not a prostitute at all.
Georges de La Tour's plain, plump girls playing the part of angels or Mary Magdalenes are transformed into the very type of meditating piety by the glamour of a candle flame, the light from which, more than the human flesh it selectively exposes, is the subject of the picture.
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 Philippe de Champaigne Online
Philippe de Champaigne at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Philippe de Champaigne in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
All images and text on this Philippe de Champaigne page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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 Encyclopedia: Philippe de Champaigne
philippe de champaigne ex voto The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years.
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Marie de Medici (April 26, 1573 - July 3, 1642), born in Italy as Maria de Medici, was queen consort of France under the French name Marie de Médicis.
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 Painter/Artist: Philippe de Champaigne (1602-74)
Champaigne has been called "the painter of Port Royal" because of his many associations with that important lay convent.
Both his daughters entered Port Royal and one of Champaigne's most effective paintings of the austere type is a votive portrait of the abbess and his daughter Catherine (Louvre), celebrating Catherine's miraculous cure by the abbess.
Champaigne's eclectic, decorative style can be seen in the Presentation (Brussels), which derives from Italian formulas.
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 AllRefer.com - Philippe de Champaigne (European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Philippe de Champaigne, European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biographies
Philippe de Champaigne[both: fElEp´ du shANpA´nyu] Pronunciation Key, 1602–74, French painter, b.
For her and for Richelieu he executed many religious paintings, still to be seen in French churches, and numerous portraits.
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 Cardinal Richelieu by CHAMPAIGNE, Philippe de
Born in Brussels, Philippe de Champaigne settled in Paris in 1621 and became one of the city's leading artists, painting portraits and religious compositions for the Queen Mother, Marie de' Medici, the court of Louis XIII, the city administration, fashionable congregations and private individuals.
The sitter for this grandiose portrait, however, is obviously not one of the artist's Jansenist patrons: where they wear sober fl, he wears crimson; where they appear against a plain grey background, he stands in a palatial gallery against a great Baroque swathe of curtain, a glimpse of his château gardens behind him.
He is Armand-Jean du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu (1585-1642), cardinal, Chief Minister to the King and virtual ruler of France from 1624 until his death.
www.wga.hu /html/c/champaig/richeli.html   (485 words)

  
 Philippe De Champaigne (1602 - 1674) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Philippe de Champaigne began working with Nicolas Poussin at the age of nineteen, decorating the Luxembourg Palace.
Champaigne was a founder of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and became a professor there in 1653.
Philippe de Champaigne, Louis XIII, Roi De France...seventy seventh plate in the book...Galerie lithographiÈe de son Altesse royale Monseigneur le Duc d* OrlÈans (Paris: Bureau de la Galerie ä [1830?]), vol.
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 Philippe de Champaigne The Annunciation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
CHAMPAIGNE, Philippe de - The Annunciation - Philippe de Champaigne - Important Painter of the 17th Century
Apart from Vouet, Champaigne was the most important painter active in Paris in the middle years of the 17th century.
Champaigne's art was much more varied than is usually thought, and his achievement spans almost fifty years, from the mid-1620s to his death in 1674.
www.palettesofvision.com /religious/annunciation.html   (297 words)

  
 Apollo: Philippe de Champaigne. 'Philippe, homme sage et vertueux': Essai sur l'art et l'oeuvre de Philippe de ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Philippe de Champaigne came and went all but unnoticed.
In France, a number of radio programmes were devoted to his major works in the Louvre, and there was an exemplary Richelieu exhibition, which opened in Montreal and was until recently in Cologne, but these were the only celebrations devoted to this great artist.
Should this be taken as meaning that Philippe de Champaigne is a forgotten figure, and that the considerable reputation...
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 Philippe De Champaigne (1602 - 1674) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Philippe de Champaigne began working with Nicolas Poussin at the age of nineteen, decorating the Luxembourg Palace.
Champaigne was a founder of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and became a professor there in 1653.
Philippe de Champaigne, Louis XIII, Roi De France...seventy seventh plate in the book...Galerie lithographiÈe de son Altesse royale Monseigneur le Duc d* OrlÈans (Paris: Bureau de la Galerie ä [1830?]), vol.
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'Philippe, homme sage et vertueux': Essai sur l'art et l'oeuvre de Philippe de Champaigne (1602-...
Lorenzo Pericolo La Renaissance du Livre and Dexia Banque, 2002, ISBN 2 8046 1626 0, 74.50 [euro] The four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Philippe de Champaigne came and went all but unnoticed.
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 Tuileries.fr - Champaigne, Philippe de
Philippe de Champaigne naquit à Bruxelles le 26 mai 1602 dans une famille modeste.
Il reçut tout de même une bonne éducation et se dirigea vers la peinture.
Philippe sentait que son art n?était plus très en vogue dès 1661 et il se tourna donc vers la peinture religieuse d?où vint son chef-d??uvre, l?Ex-Voto, peint en 1662.
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 Treasure of the Month - Oct 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Champaigne painted at least eleven pictures on the same theme and a reduced version or modello of the present composition is in the Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull.
The sitter is dressed as an échevin, or Alderman of the Paris City Council, while the interrupted background and fl drapery seen to the left and right of the figure indicate that the picture once formed part of a larger group portrait.
The Wallace Collection’s picture, however, may be identified with a group portrait painted by Champaigne to commemorate the two-year term of Alexandre de Sève as prévôt des marchands, or Mayor of Paris.
www.wallacecollection.org /c/w_a/t_m/m/nov_02.htm   (905 words)

  
 Philippe de Champaigne --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Trained in Brussels, Champaigne arrived in Paris in 1621 and was employed with the classical Baroque painter Nicolas Poussin on the decoration of the Luxembourg Palace, under the direction of Nicholas Duchesne.
Remembered today mainly for the music he wrote for the harpsichord, the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau was known during his lifetime for his operas and for his contribution to music theory.
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 Jeanyves Guérin :: Rédacteur en chef Jean Cassou
Il a, comme son prédécesseur, des liens avec la NRF et a longtemps tenu une chronique de poésie aux Nouvelles littéraires.
C'est un héritier des Lumières et du romantisme (il regrette que Maurras ait communiqué son hugophobie au milieu littéraire 1), un homme de culture et un militant.
Les campagnes des surréalistes et de Victor Serge sur les procès de Moscou n'y trouvent aucun écho.
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 Portrait of a Man by CHAMPAIGNE, Philippe de
Champaigne's austerity in fact predated that of Poussin, and its source was the portrait painting of the fifteenth-century Netherlandish masters.
Champaigne did not hesitate to use the conventions of almost two hundred years before, simply because they were successful ones.
The convention of the man behind a ledge, typical of Van Eyck and the generation including Memling and Bouts that came after him, is made freer by Champaigne, who permitted a greater degree of realism in his work: for instance moisture is visible on the slightly open lips of the sitter.
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 JS Online: Framed
Philippe de Champaigne created "Moses Presenting the Tables of the Law" in 1648.
Philippe de Champaigne was equally adept at portraiture and religious imagery.
Throughout his career, de Champaigne remained a favorite of royals and aristocrats.
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 MAM - Collection - Early European Art - Milwaukee Art Museum - Collections - Early European Art - Philippe de Champaigne
Brussels-born French artist Philippe de Champaigne enjoyed a 40-year career painting for aristocracy that included Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu.
Champaigne’s asceticism and sincerity are evident in this portrayal of a courtly but exotic Moses presenting the Ten Commandments.
With characteristic concern for accuracy, Champaigne arranged the commandments in the order recommended by contemporary theologians and on tablets whose rectangular shape was considered authentic.
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 ART / 4 / 2DAY
Philippe de Champaigne was born and trained in Brussels, Belgium.
Philippe de Champaigne, who was born in Brussels, effectively took French nationality in 1629.
In 1620, however, he made the acquaintance of the abbot of Saint-Cyran, Jean Duvergier de Hauranne [1581 – 11 Oct 1643], a founder of the Jansenist movement, and under Saint-Cyran's influence he eventually sought to retire from secular life.
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 Philippe de Champaigne. 'Philippe, homme sage et vertueux': Essai sur l'art et l'oeuvre de Philippe de Champaigne - ...
Should this be taken as meaning that Philippe de Champaigne is a forgotten figure, and that the considerable reputation he enjoyed during his lifetime, and which remained undimmed throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, has now faded?
Happily, Lorenzo Pericolo's monograph is a timely reminder of this anniversary, and even more of Philippe de Champaigne's considerable standing in the history of seventeenth-century French art, in spite of the fact that he has never been the subject of a monographic exhibition.
No major aspect of his career is overlooked, as we follow his progress from his Flemish origins to his training in Paris, from the Palais du Luxembourg of Marie de Medicis to the monumental religious compositions of the 1640s, from Richelieu, whose official painter he was, to Anne of Austria, and finally to Port-Royal.
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