Color Inserts
Jacques Louis David. Belisarius Receiving Alms, 1781, one of David’s great masterpieces of the 1780s. ©GIRAUDON/ART RESOURCE, N.Y.
Decorative Arts. Tapestry Room, Osterley Park, Middlesex, England, designed 1775 by Robert Adam, with tapestries from the Gobelins factory in Paris. THE ART ARCHIVE/VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM LONDON/DAGLI ORTI
Festivals. Carnival Scene, or, The Minuet, 1756, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. THE ART ARCHIVE/MUSÉE DU LOUVRE PARIS/DAGLI ORTI
School of Fontainebleau. The Triumphal Elephant fresco in the Gallery of Francis I in the Château de Fontainebleau. THE ART ARCHIVE/DAGLI ORTI
Art in France. The Tent of Darius, by Charles Le Brun, c. 1660. As director of the French academy and official painter to Louis XIV, Le Brun exerted enormous influence in the development of French art. He was also responsible for many of the lavish decorations in Louis’s palace at Versailles. In this history painting, typical of his style, Le Brun depicts the surrender of the Persian King Darius to Alexander the Great. ©RÉUNION DES MUSÉES NATIONAUX/ART RESOURCE, N.Y.
Francis I. Equestrian portrait by François Clouet. ©ALINARI/ART RESOURCE
