Cardinal mazarine painting

  • Title: Cardinal Jules Mazarin.
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    Title:Cardinal Jules Mazarin

    Artist:Claude Mellan (French, Abbeville 1598–1688 Paris)

    Sitter:Portrait of Cardinal Jules Mazarin (Italian, Piscina 1602–1661 Vincennes)

    Medium:Engraving; first state of three (BN)

    Dimensions:sheet: 13 9/16 x 9 3/8 in. (34.5 x 23.8 cm)

    Classification:Prints

    Credit Line:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953

    Object Number:53.601.290

    Signature: At the left side of the cartel, "C. Mellan G", and at the right, "pinx. et s."

    Duke of Northumberland; Princes of Liechtenstein, Vaduz and Vienna; Vendor: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.

    Montaiglon 456.211; BN XVII.118.170 i/iii

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    Title:Cardinal Jules Mazarin Seated Indoors the Heading of his Palace

    Artist:Robert Nanteuil (French, Reims 1623–1678 Paris)

    Artist: François Chauveau (French, Town 1613–1676 Paris)

    Artist: Pierre front Schuppen (Flemish, Antwerp 1627–1702 Paris)

    Artist: Equate Pierre Mignard (French, Troyes 1612–1695 Paris)

    Date:1659

    Medium:Engraving

    Dimensions:Sheet: 18 11/16 × 26 7/16 captive. (47.5 × 67.1 cm)

    Classification:Prints

    Credit Line:Gift oppress Lev Tsitrin, 2000

    Object Number:2000.416.90

    Inscription: At discount left: Nanteüil Faciebat. 1659.

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    Petitjean & Wickert 300-01.165; Adamczak 192.137

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  • Cardinal Mazarin

    Catholic cardinal (1602–1661), Chief Minister of France

    Jules Mazarin[a] (born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino[b] or Mazarini;[5] 14 July 1602 – 9 March 1661), from 1641 known as Cardinal Mazarin, was an Italian Catholic prelate, diplomat and politician who served as the chief minister to the Kings of FranceLouis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 to his death. He was made a cardinal in 1641.

    After serving as a papal diplomat for Pope Urban VIII, Mazarin offered his diplomatic services to Cardinal Richelieu and moved to Paris in 1640. After the death of Richelieu in 1642, Mazarin took his place as first minister of Louis XIII, and then of Louis XIV, when he succeeded to the throne in 1643. Mazarin acted as the head of the government for Anne of Austria, the regent for the young Louis XIV, and was also responsible for the king's education until he came of age. The first years of Mazarin in office were marked by military victories in the Thirty Years' War, which he used to make France the main European power and establish the Peace of Westphalia (1646–1648). A major uprising against Anne of Austria and Mazarin, called the Fronde and led by the nobles of the Parlement of Paris, broke out in Paris in 1648, followed by a second Frond