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Château De Bonnelles
The Château de Bonnelles is a French castle located in the commune of Bonnelles, near Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, in the Yvelines department of France. The current castle, the third on the property, in the Louis XIII style, was built between 1847 and 1849 by the architects Joseph-Antoine Froelicher and Clément Parent, was an important hunting centre when it was the favourite residence of the famous Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duchess of Uzès. History The estate is located on the border of Hurepoix and Beauce, France, Beauce. The first castle was built there towards the end of the 15th or the beginning of the 16th century, likely by the Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve, Villeneuve family. It was enlarged in the middle of the 16th century by the addition of a new wing, while a second new wing, perpendicular to the first, was built towards the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th century. In the 16th century, the land of Bonnelles briefly passed to the Lamoignon family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis XIII Style
The Louis XIII style or ''Louis Treize'' was a fashion in French art and French architecture, architecture, especially affecting the visual arts, visual and decorative arts. Its distinctness as a period in the history of French art has much to do with the Regent, regency under which Louis XIII began his reign (1610–1643). His mother and regent, Marie de' Medici, imported Mannerism from her homeland of Italy and the influence of Italian art was to be strongly felt for several decades. Louis XIII-style painting was influenced from the north, through Flemish Baroque painting, Flemish and Dutch Golden Age painting, Dutch Baroque, and from the south, through Italian mannerism and early Baroque. Schools developed around Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens. Among the French painters who blended Italian mannerism with a love of genre scenes were Georges de La Tour, Simon Vouet, and the Le Nain, Le Nain brothers. The influence of the painters on subsequent generations, however, was min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |