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Oct312013

Antoine Caron: A Distinctive Artistic Personality

DateThursday, October 31, 2013 at 11:07AM

Antoine Caron - Augustus and the Sibyl - 1575-80 - Oil on canvas, 125 x 170 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris (click photo for larger image)Antoine Caron (c.1520-c.1600) was a French Mannerist painter whose work reflects the refined but unstable atmosphere of the Valois court, during the Wars of Religion (1560-98). Caron was Catherine de Medicis' official artist. His paintings often bear hallmarks of the royal fêtes. Shown here is the Emperor Augustus on his knees, in front of the Sibyl, who gestures towards the Virgin and Child in the heavens. The architectural setting, reminiscent of theatre decor, shows the Seine and possibly certain monuments of Paris modified by the artist's imagination.

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