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In early Renaissance art, the French really weren't attracted to the Italian Baroque Artistic Styles. The French had a conservative nature and they preferred to display elegance with a limit to the amount of emotions they displayed. Their art was restrained and less dramatic. Despite these feelings, leading French painters of the period traveled to Rome, where they spent most of theirs lives, influenced by contemporary Italian artists and classical antiquity.

French painter Nicolas Poussin was the greatest in the 17th century. He detested the work of Caravaggio, an Italian Baroque style artist who explored the darker side of life and death in his paintings. Poussin rejected Caravaggio's work and saw his own paintings as a protest against the excesses of Baroque style of art. Poussin's style eventually changed as he developed in his career but the elegance in his earlier work was replaced with stiffness and no signs of emotion.

In 1667, while under the ruling of Louis XIV, the......

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