03 — ARTWORK
Prudence
- MEDIUM
- Bronze
- TYPE
- Mythological
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
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Sarazin's last work was the monument erected to Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, father of the great Condé, in the church of St Paul-St Louis. It was begun in 1648, but the monument was not finished till 1663, three years after the artist's death. In the nineteenth century it was moved by the Duc d'Aumale to Chantilly and reconstructed in a wholly new setting, with the result that in its present form only the individual groups and not the general arrangement represent the original intention of Sarazin. The groups, one of them the Prudence, reveal the importance of this late stage in Sarazin's evolution; for here we see in fully developed form the style which was to dominate the sculpture of Versailles for the next two decades. It was Sarazin who invented in sculpture the peculiar mixture of classicism and BaroqueThe period in art history from about 1600 to about 1750. In this sense the term covers a wide range of styles and artists. In painting and sculpture there were three main forms of Baroque: (1) sumptuous display, a style associated with the Catholic Counter Reformation and the absolutist courts of Europe (Bernini, Rubens); (2) dramatic realism (Caravaggio); and (3) everyday realism, a development seen in particular in Holland (Rembrandt, Vermeer). In architecture, there was an emphasis on expressiveness and grandeur, achieved through scale, the dramatic use of light and shadow, and increasingly elaborate decoration. In a more limited sense the term Baroque often refers to the first of these categories. The development of the Baroque reflects the period's religious tensions (Catholic versus Protestant); a new and more expansive world view based on science and exploration; and the growth of absolutist monarchies. which was to fit with the doctrine of Lebrun and to play its part in the style of Louis XIV.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Prudence by SARAZIN, Jacques},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sarazin-jacques-r06244974317a0d/prudence-rd44495588b8f89},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
