Claude François (painter)
Claude François (1614 - 17 May 1685) was a French painter and Recollect Franciscan friar. He is better known as Frère Luc (''Brother Luke''), the name he adopted after becoming a monk. Life He was born in Amiens and studied drawing and the initial principals of art there, before moving to Paris to complete his training under Simon Vouet, whose style he closely copied throughout his life. From there he went to Rome to copy the old masters there. It was also there that he painted an ''Assumption of the Virgin'' as a high altarpiece for the Jacobin church back in Amiens, aged only twenty. This painting, a copy from a work by Jacopo Bassano, was valued at 6,000 écus in 1635. He then returned to Paris, where he took monastic vows aged 30 at the Récollets du faubourg Saint-Martin. It is said that he fell from the top of pont du Cange into the river Somme aged fifteen and only escaped death by a kind of miracle and that he had seen the Virgin Mary and promised her to become ...
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Fran%C3%A7ois, Claude (dit Fr%C3%A8re Luc) - Saint Bonaventure
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