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See also:BERAIN, See also:JEAN (1638-1711) , known as " the See also:Elder," Belgian draughtsman and designer, painter and engraver of See also:ornament, was See also:born in 1638 or 1639 at See also:Saint Mihiel (See also:Meuse) and died in See also:Paris on the 24th of See also:January 1711. In 1674 he was appointed dessinateur de la cha . et du See also:cabinet de Roi, in See also:succession to Gissey, whose See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil he is believed to have been. From 1677 onward he had apartments, near to those of See also:Andre See also:Charles See also:Boulle (q.v.), for whom he made many designs, in the Louvre, where he died. After the See also:death of Le Brun he was commissioned to compose and supervise the whole of the exterior decoration of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:ships. Without possessing See also:great originality he was inventive and industrious, and knew so well how to assimilate the See also:work of those who had preceded him (especially Raffaelle's arabesques) and to adapt it to the See also:taste of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time that his designs became the rage. He furnished designs for the decorations and costumes used in the See also:opera performances, for See also:court festivals, and for public solemnities such as funeral processions, and inspired the ornamentations of rooms and of See also:furniture to such an extent that a See also:French writer says that nothing was done during his later years which he had not designed, or at least which was not in his manner. He was, in fact, the See also:oracle of taste and the supreme pontiff whose fiat was See also:law in all matters of decora-tion. His numerous designs were for the most See also:part engraved under his own superintendence, and a collection of them was published in Paris in 1711 by his son-in-law, See also:Thuret, clockmaker to the king. There are three books, fEuvre de J. Berain, Ornements inventes See also:par J. Berain and (Euvres de J. Berain contenant See also:des ornements d'See also:architecture. His earliest known See also:works show him as engraver—twelve plates in the collection of Diverses pieces de serrurerie inventees par See also:Hughes Brisville et gravees par Jean Berain (Paris, 1663), and in 1667 ten plates of designs for the use of gunsmiths. M. Guilmard in See also:Les Maitres ornemanistes, gives a See also:complete See also:list of his published works.
His son JEAN BERAIN, " the Younger " (1678-1726), was born in Paris, where he also died. He was his See also:father's pupil, and exercised the same See also:official functions after his death. Thus he planned the funeral ceremonies at St See also:Denis on the death of the dauphin, and afterwards made the designs for the See also:obsequies of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. He is perhaps best known as an engraver. He engraved eleven plates of the collection Ornements de peinture et de See also:sculpture qui sont clans la galerie d'Apollon au chasteau du Louvre, et clans le See also:grand appartement du See also:roy au palais des Tuileries (Paris, 1710), which have been wrongly attributed to his father, the Mausolei du duc de Bourgogne, and that of See also:Marie-See also:Louise Gabrielle de See also:Savoie, reine d'Espagne (1714), &c. His work is exceedingly difficult to distinguish from his father's, the similarity of See also:style being remarkable.
End of Article: BERAIN, JEAN (1638-1711)
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