Simon Vouet Simon Vouet biography of work

Hello everyone! We continue to look at the paintings of the artist Simon Wee. French painter, monumentalist, portraitist and decorator. Since 1627, the first painter of King Louis XIII. Childhood took place in the besieged Paris. This is the era of religious wars in France. At that time, his father worked in Louvre and participated in the creation of the royal square, the capital. He was named Henry IV, the artist of royal stables. And he did a lot of decorative and art works. Simon helped his father, very early mastered the skill. Already at the age of 14, he wrote a portrait of a noble lady on request. And it was in London. In 1611, Simon is in the suite of the French embassy in Constantinople, where he writes in memory of the portrait of Sultan Ahmed I. Wee's mature style distinguishes great accuracy and thoroughness in the reproduction of details and architecture. Usually, he prefers a shallow space. Focusing on the expression and movement of individual figures or groups. In November 1612, Wee sails to a gallery in Venice, where he studies the paintings of Tiziano, Veronese and Tintoretto. At the beginning of 1614, he settles in Rome. Among them is Cardinal Barberini, who will be elected Pope under the name of Urbano VIII in 1623. The Italian period is a dark period, because Wee was under the influence of Caravaggioism. It continues until 1627. Wee performs numerous paintings, the most important for the Church of San Lorenzo in Lucina in Rome. In 1624, Wee was elected Prince of the Academy of St. Luke, the artistic academy of Rome. In 1625, he marries Virginia da Vecchio, a young Roman woman who was his model and student, and later a talented artist and mother of his ten children. It shows the interest in the antiquity of the Roman Empire, its culture and traditions. In 1627, his paintings are illuminated, and the painting becomes more virtuosic, colorful. The king, through his ambassador in Rome, gives his will to the artist, and sees Wee in Paris. At the end of 1627, Wee returns to Paris, receives an apartment and a workshop in Louvre, and becomes the leading artist of the king. Numerous orders for painting and design of paintings for castles, churches, private houses, nobility, both in Paris and in foreign residences. 1634-1637 is the most brilliant period of his work. Pay special attention to the details, patches, draping, to the movement of the wind, which swirls parallel to the canvas to the left. In 1638, during the next births, the artist's wife dies. Roy marries for the second marriage to Edogon de Beranger, a widow. He writes a series of wonderful paintings on mythological and legionary plots. In the late period, he was so busy with orders that it began to affect the quality of his paintings. He often fell into schematism, and the paints lost their former strength, which was explained by the increased participation of the workshop in the execution of orders. He died in Paris in 1649. His fame with time faded, and in the 19th century he was almost forgotten. So, in short, from the Wikipedia about the French painter, monumentalist, portraitist and decorator Simon Louet. Bye, bye, goodbye. We look at the work.