Simon VOUET's guest appearances

Simon VOUET

National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | French Painting

Musée des beaux-arts - Dole

LadyKflo

Monsieur Courbet

Angela Davis

Wendy Beckett

Marc Chagall

Judy Chicago

Leon Kossoff

Abu Ghraib

George III

Nellie Bly

Louise Bourgeois

Saint George

Saint Sebastian

Simone Leigh

Frédéric Bazille

Lorenzo Lotto

OwlTail

Allegories bring big ideas down to earth. Simon Vouet's painting Wealth gives a grand example of this at work. Baroque painters, such as Vouet, reveled in allegory. They swam in it, like Scrooge McDuck with his pool of gold coins. Vouet flourishes with a sweep of golden fabric across the work's center - a rich beacon.   Wealth is a woman surrounded with children beside her here. That's to remind us that it's not the bejeweled necklaces and chic vases that matter most. True riches lie in bonds of the heart and soul. For instance, with the unconditional love between parent and child depicted here. The woman Wealth drowns in riches. She's got it on all levels, tangible, emotional, and familial.   Learn more about this and other masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's website: https://www.ladykflo.com/simon-vouet-wealth/

Allegories bring big ideas down to earth. Simon Vouet's painting Wealth gives a grand example of this at work. Baroque painters, such as Vouet, reveled in allegory. They swam in it, like Scrooge McDuck with his pool of gold coins. Vouet flourishes with a sweep of golden fabric across the work's center - a rich beacon. Wealth is a woman surrounded with children beside her here. That's to remind us that it's not the bejeweled necklaces and chic vases that matter most. True riches lie in bonds of the heart and soul. For instance, with the unconditional love between parent and child depicted here. The woman Wealth drowns in riches. She's got it on all levels, tangible, emotional, and familial. Learn more about this and other masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's website: <a href="https://www.ladykflo.com/simon-vouet-wealth/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ladykflo.com/simon-vouet-wealth/</a>

Simon Vouet

Redécouvrez la tragique épopée de Didon et Enée tirée du récit de l’Énéide de Virgile dans ce tableau, La Mort de Didon, de Simon Vouet, Premier peintre à la cour de Louis XIII. Le chef-d’œuvre des collections d’art ancien du musée restitue le lyrisme de cette scène, en associant la puissance d’expression du baroque à la monumentalité du classicisme français qui domina ensuite le règne de Louis XIV.

101 – Simon Vouet

Simon Vouet’s Allegory of Prudence is one of the Musée Fabre’s most significant paintings. It is remarkable as much for its formal bravado – its contorted arabesque lines, its statuesque forms, its dramatic lighting effects – as for its historical importance.Allegory of Prudence was painted for the recently widowed Queen Regent, Anne of Austria, as part of a large commission to decorate the Palais Royal, Paris (1643–1647). The ambitious Regent – at the time the subject of a series of scandals, including a rumour that she had secretly married the powerful, scrupulous Cardinal Jules Mazarin – is depicted as the figure of Prudence, one of the four Cardinal Virtues from classical and religious texts. The beautiful, virtuous Regent is seen untroubled by the effects of the material world, whether the passage of time personified by the old man at her feet or politics and skulduggery, which she is literally above.

Simon Vouet’s Allegory of Prudence is one of the Musée Fabre’s most significant paintings. It is remarkable as much for its formal bravado – its contorted arabesque lines, its statuesque forms, its dramatic lighting effects – as for its historical importance. Allegory of Prudence was painted for the recently widowed Queen Regent, Anne of Austria, as part of a large commission to decorate the Palais Royal, Paris (1643–1647). The ambitious Regent – at the time the subject of a series of scandals, including a rumour that she had secretly married the powerful, scrupulous Cardinal Jules Mazarin – is depicted as the figure of Prudence, one of the four Cardinal Virtues from classical and religious texts. The beautiful, virtuous Regent is seen untroubled by the effects of the material world, whether the passage of time personified by the old man at her feet or politics and skulduggery, which she is literally above.

Simon VOUET, Allegory of Prudence [Allégorie de la Prudence] c.1645