Art and architecture in France, 1500 to 1700
Part 1 From the invasion of Italy to the Battle of Pavia 1494-1525: historical background architecture - the introduction of Renaissance motives from Northern Italy - the first chateaux of Francis I sculpture - Guido Mazzoni, the Giusti, Michel Colombe painting - Bourdichon, Perreal. Part 2 The middle years of Francis I 1525-1540: historical background architecture - the chateaux built for Francis I in the Ile-de-France - Madrid, Fontainebleau etc decorative sculpture and painting - Rosso and the early work of Primaticcio portrait painting - Jean Clouet. Part 3 The classical period of the 16th century 1540-1565: historical background architecture - Serlio, Lescot, Philibert de l'Orme, Primaticcio painting and engraving - Primaticcio, Nicolo dell'Abate, Francois Clouet, Jean Duvet sculpture - Goujon, Bontemps, Domenico del Barbiere. Part 4 The wars of religion 1560-1598: historical background architecture - Bullant, Jacques Androuet du Cerceau the elder sculpture - Germain Pilon painting - Antoine Caron, Jean Cousin the younger, and the portrait painters. Part 5 Henry IV and the regency of Marie de'Medici 1598-1630: historical background architecture - the king's works, Le Muet, Salomon de Brosse painting and sculpture - the second school of Fontainebleau, the mannerists of Nancy - Bellange and Callot, late mannerism in Paris, Vignon, Biard. Part 6 Richelieu and Mazarin, 1630-1661: historical background architecture - Lemercier, Francois Mansart, the early work of Le Vau painting - Simon Vouet, the minor painters of the 1630s and the 1640s, Philippe de Champaigne and Flemish influence, the Caravaggesques, the Le Nains, Nicolas Poussin, landscape painting - Claude Lorraine and Gaspar Dughet, the minor classical painters - Le Sueur and Bourdon sculpture - Sarrazin, Francois and Michel Anguier. Part 7 Louis XIV and Colbert 1660-1685: historical background architecture and the decorative arts - the Louvre and Versailles, Bernini, Le Vau, Perrault, J.H. Mansart, Le Notre, Blondel and the academy, L.Bruant, the decorators painting and theory - Lebrun and the academy - Mignard sculpture - Girardon and Coysevox. Part 8 The decline of Louis XIV 1685-1705: historical background architecture - the later work of J.H. Mansart - bullet sculpture - Puget - the later work of Coysevox painting - La Fosse, Jouvenet, Antoine Coypel, the portrait painters - Francois de Troy, Largillierre and Rigaud, Desportes postscript - the transition to the 18th century.