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Equestrian statue of Louis XIV (Bernini)

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Colbert, though unlike the first and the third drafts an image does not appear to have survived. The third and final draft, which had eliminated the curved wings that Bernini initially envisioned, was praised by Louis, who had held a formal ceremony to lay the cornerstone of the new façade. However, as soon as Bernini left France to return to Rome, Louis ordered the construction to stop.
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in mind, with both horses striking similar poses and neither riders holding reins or stirrups. Whereas Constantine's gestures were raised above him to convey the vision of the Holy Cross and God above him, the Sun King’s gestures are grounded to convey his mundane and non-divine power in an act that
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also stated that Bernini's plans to place the King's own room in the outwardly protruding central pavilion would be a noisy location due to its close proximity to the nearby street and foot traffic. Following the rejection of the first draft, Bernini sent in a second draft which too was rejected by
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Following the failure of Bernini's stay in Paris, French attitudes toward Italian culture changed, a shift in attitude that for the first time since the Renaissance recognized that a national self-consciousness and self confidence north of the Alps had developed, an attitude that developed as a
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architect who had been hired by Louis XIV, was inadequate, deciding instead to create his own designs, citing his own observations of palaces throughout his career. Bernini would eventually propose to abandon Le Vau’s ongoing project, instead insisting that he would provide the design details
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recorded that the King had resolved to remove the statue from the grounds and to destroy it. The statue, however, was not destroyed, but moved to another location on the main axis of the Orangerie, south of the pool. In September 1686, Bernini’s statue was displaced by
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that only the sacrifice of Rome's greatest possession would close. As a result Curtius determined that Rome's most prized possession with the bravery of its soldiers and hurled himself into the abyss while riding his horse, closing it.
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by boat. In March 1685, the statue arrived in Paris. The statue was then shipped to Versailles during August and September, arriving at the palace on October 1, 1685. By the ninth, the statue was placed in the
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Two major elements were changed; the flowing hair at the back of Louis XIV’s head was converted into the casque of a crested helmet and the flags were converted into a mass of flames at the horse’s feet.
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In many images that capture the likeness of Louis XIV, the principal component was the metaphor of Louis’ reign, the sun, which conforms to the tradition of the
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Bernini's first concept for the planned east façade, which placed a heavy emphasis on curved wings in the Italian style, was almost immediately rejected.
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For much of the 17th century, Bernini was regarded as the premier artist of the era, serving as the primary source of artistic works commissioned by
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In spite of Louis's public rejection of the equestrian statue, its form inspired future royal portraits of the King, including a marble creation by
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Bernini followed French tradition creating equestrian statues of French kings in their own residences, with notable examples by
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The day after his arrival in Paris on June 3, 1665, Bernini concluded that the work that had been already done on the Louvre by
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Orangerie at Versailles with the Lake of the Swiss Guards. Bernini's sculpture was placed at the very far end of the lake.
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In his process to construct the equestrian statue, Bernini referred back to one of his earlier works, the
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On 14 November 1685, Louis XIV saw the statue for the first time in the orangerie,
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The equestrian statue of Louis XIV was designed with his earlier work in Rome on
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in the mid-1660s, but it did not start until later in the decade, when back in
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was extremely unhappy with the result and had it placed in a corner of the
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Zarucchi, Jeanne (Winter 2006). "Berenini and Louis XIV: A Duel of Egos".
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in which Divine Wisdom appears with the symbol of the sun on her breast.
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In 1687, Francois Girardon was tasked with amending Berini's sculpture
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is a sculpture designed and partially executed by the Italian artist
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The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Trans. and ed. by Franco Mormando
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depicting Louis XIV on horseback which sits in the Salon of War at
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and altered into an equestrian sculpture of the ancient Roman hero
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Opdycke, Leonard (1956). "An Equestrian Statuette of Louis XIV".
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A transitory star: the late Bernini and his reception
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The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter and a Faun
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In 1702, after the transformation from Louis XIV to
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Index


Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Louis XIV of France
Palace of Versailles
Versailles
Coordinates
48°48′15.8″N 2°7′23.3″E / 48.804389°N 2.123139°E / 48.804389; 2.123139
The Vision of Constantine (Bernini)
Bust of Gabriele Fonseca
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
France
Rome
Paris
Louis XIV of France
gardens of Versailles
François Girardon
Marcus Curtius
Pope Urban VIII
equestrian statue
portrait bust
new façade
Louvre Palace
Louis Le Vau
Classical
Baroque
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
François Mansart
Charles Perrault
Pietro Tacca
Philip IV of Spain

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