. Art in France. Hotel-de-Ville, which the king completed, there was a bronze bas-relief by Pierre Biard on the tympanum of the central door, representing Henry IV on horseback. The son of this sculptor executed a Louis XIII for the Place Royale; here again theKing of France bestrode an Italian Louis XIV of the Place Vendome atlast was given one of French race. At theentrance of the Pont au Change there wasa monument on which three bronze figuresby Simon Guillain, represented Louis XIIIas a soldier, and Anne of Austria in courtcostume, turning towards the little each of th
. Art in France. Hotel-de-Ville, which the king completed, there was a bronze bas-relief by Pierre Biard on the tympanum of the central door, representing Henry IV on horseback. The son of this sculptor executed a Louis XIII for the Place Royale; here again theKing of France bestrode an Italian Louis XIV of the Place Vendome atlast was given one of French race. At theentrance of the Pont au Change there wasa monument on which three bronze figuresby Simon Guillain, represented Louis XIIIas a soldier, and Anne of Austria in courtcostume, turning towards the little each of these statues there is a robust,if slightly heavy sincerity, which washabitual when art did not allow itself to beguided, and ruined, by Florentine idealism(Fig. 398). At this period, the glorification of Frenchkings by statuary in accordance with a ritualfirst Roman, and then Italian, was a novelidea. Henrv IV, Louis XIII, Louis XIV,and Louis XV had not, like their ancestors,monumental tombs in Saint-Denis. No re-. FIC. :il)l. — IlKRREFRAN< HE\ ORPHEUS. (The Louvre, Paris.) 189 ART IN FRANCE
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