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The Salon's original focus was the display of the work of recent graduates of the École des Beaux-Arts, which was created by Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, in 1648. Exhibition at the Salon de Paris was essential for any artist to achieve success in France for at least the next 200 years.
Salons were started under Louis XIV and continued from 1667 to 1704. After a hiatus, the salons started up again in 1725. Under Louis XV, the most prestigious Salon took place in Paris (the Salon de Paris) in the Salon Carré of the Louvre, but there were also salons in the cities of Bordeaux, Lille and Toulouse.
Interior of the Salon of 1767 by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. The Salon of 1767 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris. It took place during the reign of Louis XV and was overseen by the Académie Royale. It was proceeded by the Salon of 1765 and followed by the Salon of 1769. The Alsatian artist Philip James de Loutherbourg, widely ...
Sophie de Condorcet, the wife of the Marquis de Condorcet, ran a salon at the Hôtel des Monnaies in Paris, opposite the Louvre. Her salons were attended by several prominent philosophes and, at various times, Anne-Robert Turgot, Thomas Jefferson, the Scottish economist Adam Smith, Olympe de Gouges and Madame de Staël. Unlike Madame Roland, a ...
Marie-Thérèse Bro-C'hall (1667-1672) Usage on cs.wikipedia.org Marie Tereza Francouzská (1667–1672) Usage on de.wikipedia.org Kleidermode zur Zeit Ludwigs XIV. Marie-Thérèse von Frankreich (1667–1672) Jean Nocret; Usage on el.wikipedia.org Μαρία Θηρεσία της Γαλλίας (1667–1672) Usage on es.wikipedia.org Madame Royale
The Salon of 1765 was an art exhibition that took place at the Louvre in Paris. One of the biannual Salon it took place during the reign of Louis XV and was overseen by the Académie Royale which at this time limited submissions to the Salon largely to it own members. As with previous salons, the art critic Denis Diderot was an influential ...
Portrait of Jules Hardoun Mansart by Hyacinthe Rigaud, with Les Invalides in background. Jules Hardouin-Mansart (French pronunciation: [ʒyl aʁdwɛ̃ mɑ̃saʁ]; 16 April 1646 – 11 May 1708) was a French Baroque architect and builder whose major work included the Place des Victoires (1684–1690); Place Vendôme (1690); the domed chapel of Les Invalides (1690), and the Grand Trianon of the ...
He also designates Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie as the first chief of police of Paris. 24 May – The War of Devolution begins: France invades Flanders and Franche-Comté; on 10 August the siege of Lille, the war's only main engagement, begins, ending in a French victory. 26 June – Louis XIV conquers Tournai.