The term “old masters” applies to the premier European artists of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, a time when global exploration and scientific advancement were bringing exciting new developments to Western art. This notecard assortment features studies by four of these great artists from the vast collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Raffaello Sanzio (Italian, 1483–1520), known as Raphael, died at age thirty-seven, but in his short life he served as trusted portraitist to two successive popes and as architect of St. Peter’s Basilica. Simon Vouet (French, 1590–1649) studied art in Italy for more than a decade before returning home to spawn the French Baroque style. Among Vouet’s own students was Charles Le Brun (French, 1619–1690), who would serve as director of both the Académie Royale and Gobelins (the royal furnishings factory), thereby becoming the virtual arbiter of the French aesthetic. Antoine Coypel (French, 1661–1722), a later Académie director, was appointed painter to French regent Philippe II in 1715. Twenty assorted 5 x 7" blank notecards (5 each of 4 styles) with white envelopes in a decorative box. ISBN 978-0-7649-3810-8. |
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Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, Study of the Head of an Angel for The Expulsion of Heliodorus, 1511. 5 x 7" blank notecard with white envelope. | | Charles Le Brun, Studies for a Muse (with a male model), ca. 1653–1655. 5 x 7" blank notecard with white envelope. |
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Simon Vouet, Study for the Allegory of Intellect, ca. 1645. 5 x 7" blank notecard with white envelope. | | Antoine Coypel, Study of a Man and a Woman for Aeneas Descending into the Underworld, 1716–1717. 5 x 7" blank notecard with white envelope. |
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