Before women began a love-hate relationship with high-heeled shoes, they were exclusively worn by men and were a sign of ...

One of the most famous depictions of ornate heels for men can be seen in Hyacinthe Rigaud’s state portrait of Louis XIV from 1701 ... status symbol that the king limited to a select group ...

Initially appointed as the governess to the illegitimate children of King Louis XIV and his mistress Madame ... hung with a collection of historic royal portraits. This stunning room, designed ...

At fourteen, he was doing portraits of his family in an adult ... “It was something like the morning levees of Louis XIV, only more disorderly and intelligent,” a friend commented not long ...

Whenever the king or queen would move ... But I realized that it was kind of necessary. It was across from the portrait of Louis XIV by Hyacinthe Rigaud. If I hadn’t put myself on a base like that, I ...

Like Euripides, Virgil paints a portrait of Andromache as a wife who remains faithful ... Andromaque was first performed in 1667 before the court of Louis XIV. In its composition, Racine was deeply ...

Louis XIV (the Sun King) also had one of her paintings in his “art cabinet ... These works largely date from the period 1628-1635. In 2016, one of her self-portraits surfaced, probably dating from ...