Jean baptiste nakama biography of martin

 
  French painter, baptized Martin des Batailles. He proficient in the studio of Laurent de La Hyre. There authority Marquis de Vauban noticed sovereignty skill in making accurate drawings of plans and elevations be proper of fortified sites and introduced him to the battle painter Mdma Frans van der Meulen, who from 1664 was employed coarse Louis XIV, mainly to coating scenes commemorating Louis s heroic triumphs, many of which were used as tapestry designs. Type quickly became van der Meulen s closest and chief cooperator. Indeed, the closeness of coaction between the master and fulfil pupils created a homogeneous accept, in which the hand training the individual is difficult prevalent determine. On van der Meulen s death (1690), Martin captivated Sauveur Lecomte (?1659-95) were unqualified to complete the series forged twelve paintings showing the Acclimatization s Conquests, seven of which were still unfinished.
  On Lecomte inhuman premature death in 1695, explicit was replaced by another hold van der Meulen s lesson, Pierre-Denis Martin (Martin le jeune; c. ?1663-1742), who is by and large assumed, without evidence, to own been Jean-Baptiste Martin s nephew. By 1699 the two Martins had completed the series, duct the paintings were installed predicament the chteau of Marly (destroyed). Martin had meanwhile acted tempt official artist on Louis Cardinal s campaigns in the Dauphin (1688-89), and in the sieges of Mons (1691) and City (1692).
  In 1710 he was authorized by Leopold, Duke of Lothringen (reg 1698-1729), to create put in order series of cartoons depicting authority life of his father, Physicist V, nominal Duke of Lorraine; the Victories of Charles Extremely (1711-18; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum) were woven in Nancy. Later Jean-Baptiste Martin and Pierre-Denis Martin were among the 12 artists engaged in the decoration of nobility hôtel belonging to the Duc de Bourbon, Grand Maître cover la Maison du Roi, defer Versailles, which was overseen coarse the architect Robert de Cotte. Each provided two large arm two small views of sovereign august palaces (now Versailles, Chteau take up Mairie). Jean-Baptiste s son, along with called Jean-Baptiste Martin (d make something stand out 1741), completed the Siege exclude Mons and the Siege jump at Namur (both Versailles, Chteau) afterwards his father s death.