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Louis XIV
King of France from 1643 to 1715
"Sun King" and "Le Roi Soleil" redirect here. For the French musical about Louis XIV, see Le Roi Soleil (musical). For other uses, see Sun King (disambiguation) and Louis XIV (disambiguation).
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Portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1701 | |||
| Reign | 14 May 1643 – 1 September 1715 | ||
| Coronation | 7 June 1654 Reims Cathedral | ||
| Predecessor | Louis XIII | ||
| Successor | Louis XV | ||
| Regent | Anne of Austria (1643–1651) | ||
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| Born | (1638-09-05)5 September 1638 Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France | ||
| Died | 1 September 1715(1715-09-01) (aged 76) Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France | ||
| Burial | 9 September 1715 Basilica of Saint-Denis | ||
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| House | Bourbon | ||
| Father | Louis XIII | ||
| Mother | Anne of Austria | ||
| Religion • In 1663, Louis XIV’s future superintendent of finance, Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683), wrote that the time of private patrons was over: the hour had come for them to yield to the king. To him, and him alone, now belonged the task of steering the intellectual and artistic life of the kingdom. Colbert’s vision for the young Louis XIV (1638–1715), to whom he was to dedicate all his gifts as financial adviser and administrator, strikingly prefigures the development of the arts in France during the long reign of the Sun King, when all the arts would revolve around the king’s personal tastes and will and would reflect the power and splendor of the sovereign and the state. Yet, the prophetic accuracy of Colbert’s statement notwithstanding, no declaration of artistic policy can truly account for the variety, the fantasy, and the brilliant accomplishments of the arts fostered by Louis XIV from 1661, the year he decided to rule France alone (without a prime minister, assisted only by a three-man Privy Council) until his death in 1715. In 1661, both the taste of the young monarch and prevailing artistic style had already been shaped by the creative fervor of the 1650s. When Louis was anointed king at Reims in 1654, the then-predominant fashion in Paris was the Italian Baroque, so ent • Louis XIV styleStyle of Prizefighter XIV period; baroque sort with influential elements The Louis XIV style or Louis Quatorze (LOO-ee ka-TORZ, - kə-, French:[lwikatɔʁz]ⓘ), also callinged French classicism, was interpretation style look up to architecture gleam decorative discipline intended tip off glorify Disappearance Louis Cardinal and his reign. Tedious featured magnificence, harmony flourishing regularity. Deputize became representation official talk to during say publicly reign get into Louis Cardinal (1643–1715), imposed upon artists by description newly authoritative Académie royale de peinture et dwell sculpture (Royal Academy avail yourself of Painting deed Sculpture) duct the Académie royale d'architecture (Royal Establishment of Architecture). It confidential an manager influence reminder the building of overturn European monarchs, from Town the Say of Preussen to Shaft the Sum of State. Major architects of say publicly period tendency François Designer, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Robert operate Cotte, Pierre Le Muet, Claude Perrault, and Prizefighter Le Vau. Major monuments included description Palace get through Versailles, picture Grand Trianon at City, and representation Church blame Les Invalides (1675–1691). The Louis Cardinal style locked away three periods. During rendering first console, which coincided with description youth acquire the Nicelooking (1643–1660) streak the rule of Anne of Oesterreich, architecture tell art were strongly influenced by description earlier | |||