Abstract
From a poor 18-year-old soldier, Sébastien Bourdon developed into a leading Baroque painter in France and a co-founder of the Academy in Paris. He first stayed in Rome, where he received inspiration from Caravaggio, Lorrain, Poussin and Bamboccio, became the first painter of Queen Kristina of Sweden in Stockholm, and after returning to Paris he created works of rare trembling sensibility.
The lecture is realized for the cultural public within the third role of the university in the original author's cycle Artist and Man.