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    Charles Le Brun (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl lə bʁœ̃]; baptised 24 February 1619 – 12 February 1690) was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist...
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    Vigée Le Brun (French: [elizabɛt lwiz viʒe lə bʁœ̃]; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply as Madame Le Brun...
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    Prior to working on Versailles, Le Nôtre collaborated with Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun on the park at Vaux-le-Vicomte. His other works include the...
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    submit to their control, the young but already very successful painter Charles Le Brun conceived a plan to free those he considered to be true artists from...
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    Europe. At Vaux-le-Vicomte, the architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André Le Nôtre and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together...
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    a committee of three, the Petit Conseil, also including Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun, who designed the new section of the Louvre, the Colonnade, built...
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    between 1656 and 1763. The facade was designed in the classical style by Charles Le Brun. It contains many notable art works from the 19th century, including...
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    Sacrifice of Polyxena is a mid 17th century painting by Frenchman Charles Le Brun. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts the sacrifice of Polyxena...
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    development and the construction of the Mirror Hall Gallery and artist Charles Le Brun received the honor to create the interior decorative apparatus. The...
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    Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and Claude Perrault. Vaux le Vicomte by Louis Le Vau (1658) The Louvre Colonnade by Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and Claude...
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