page_title: Antoine Caron
section_title: Art
hierarchical_section_title: Antoine Caron / Art
caption_attribution_description: English: The_Lion_of_Barbarossa by_Antoine_Caron_1562
context_page_description: Antoine Caron was a French master glassmaker, illustrator, Northern Mannerist painter and a product of the School of Fontainebleau.
  He is one of the few French painters of his time who had a pronounced artistic personality. His work reflects the refined, although highly unstable, atmosphere at the court of the House of Valois during the French Wars of Religion of 1560 to 1598.
context_section_description: Not many of Caron's works survive, but they include historical and allegorical subjects, court ceremonies, astrological scenes, and his massacres, done in the mid-1560s.  An example is his only signed and dated painting, Massacres under the Triumvirate (1566) which hangs in the Louvre.  Caron used bright colors and incorporated unusual architectural forms. He often placed his human figures almost insignificantly on grand stages, as did his mentor dell'Abbate.  His figures tend to be elongated, even in portraits such as Portrait of a Lady (1577).
  Many works attributed to him are also attributed to others. As there is minimal documentation of French painting in that era, this is not unusual.  Because Caron is relatively well known, his name is likely to be attached to paintings similar to his known works. In some cases, such painting are now ascribed "to the workshop of Antoine Caron", for example, The Submission of Milan to Francis I in 1515 (c. 1570).
caption: The Lion of Barbarossa by Antoine Caron, circa 1562, thought to depict the lion given to Francis I during the Ottoman embassy to France (1533)
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