Antoine Caron

Antoine Caron ( 1521 in Beauvais *, † 1599 in Paris) was a French painter of the Mannerist and a master of the school of Fontainebleau.

Life

He is one of the few French painters of his time with a distinct artistic personality. His work reflects the refined but less stable atmosphere at the court of the Valois during the Wars of Religion ( 1560-98 ). He has worked Primatice and Nicolò dell'Abbate 1540-1550 at Fontainebleau castle. 1561 he was appointed court painter to Catherine of Medici and Henry II of France. As court painter, he also had the task of organizing courtly festivities. He was involved in the decoration of the celebrations for the collection Karl IX in Paris and the wedding of Henry IV with Margaret of Valois.

Stylistic devices

His few works received include historical and allegorical subjects, subjects from the court ceremonial, scenes of magic, alchemy and astrology, as well as battle scenes. One example is his massacre of the triumvirs of ( 1566), which can be seen in the Louvre, his only signed work. Caron had a penchant for vibrant colors and bizarre architectural forms. His paintings are created as theater scenes in which move -figured groups in a large scene. Striking is the Überlängung the characters who interact with spruce and capricious gestures and often are in a delicate and fragile balanced limbo. The attribution of his work is often controversial in science. This uncertainty of attribution he shares with a number of franzöisichen painters of the second school of Fontainebleau, whose masters are often referred to only with Notnamen.

Selections

  • Abraham and Melchizedek, 1590, wood, 80 × 94 cm. Paris, Private Coll.
  • Apotheosis of Semele, 1585, wood, 65 × 76 cm. Paris, Private Coll.
  • Astronomers observe a solar eclipse, 93 × 73 cm. London, Coll Anthony Blunt
  • Augustus and the Sibyl of Tibur, around 1585, Paris, Musée du Louvre
  • Portrait of a Lady, 1577, tempera on panel, Munich, Pinakothek
  • The funeral Cupid, Paris, Musee du Louvre
  • Bagathan and Tharès. Spring wash,
  • Rider game with elephants, Paris, Musee du Louvre
  • Drawings ( tapestry templates ) to Nicolas Houel's Histoire de la Reine Arthémise
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