St. Louis in Glory ca. 1640-41 Simon Vouet French After a trip to Venice from 1612 to 1614 where he discovered the color of Veronese and Titian, Simon Vouet spent the following fourteen years in Rome where he absorbed the lessons of Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci. To the latter he certainly owed his taste for the study of human figure. After fulfilling prestigious commissions for a number of Roman churches, Vouet was called back to Paris by Louis XIII in 1627 and was named First Painter to the king. By the late 1630s, at the height of his career, Vouet was inundated with commissions, ranging from altarpieces and décors for Parisian churches to paintings and tapestry cartoons for royal residences and private mansions. While many of these décors have disappeared, the two he painted for the immense altarpiece of the Jesuits church Saint-Louis in Paris (known today as Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis) have survived. This draped figure is a study for the Apotheosis of Saint Louis (preserved in the

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St. Louis in Glory ca. 1640-41 Simon Vouet French After a trip to Venice from 1612 to 1614 where he discovered the color of Veronese and Titian, Simon Vouet spent the following fourteen years in Rome where he absorbed the lessons of Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci. To the latter he certainly owed his taste for the study of human figure. After fulfilling prestigious commissions for a number of Roman churches, Vouet was called back to Paris by Louis XIII in 1627 and was named First Painter to the king. By the late 1630s, at the height of his career, Vouet was inundated with commissions, ranging from altarpieces and décors for Parisian churches to paintings and tapestry cartoons for royal residences and private mansions. While many of these décors have disappeared, the two he painted for the immense altarpiece of the Jesuits church Saint-Louis in Paris (known today as Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis) have survived. This draped figure is a study for the Apotheosis of Saint Louis (preserved in the

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