Sebastien Bumblebee

See also: Bumblebee (homonymy)

Sebastien Bumblebee , born with February 2nd 1616 with Montpellier, dead the May 8th 1671 with Paris, was wire of an artist in stained glass.

He fought a long time against misery. Briefly soldier at 18 years, his adolescence Bohemian takes it along city downtown. In 1634, it is in Rome where where it studies works of Claude Lorrain, of Caravage, Pieter van Laer. Its precocity returns it quickly celebrates: at 20 years, it produces masterpieces of a rare sensitivity. Threatened by the Enquiry as calvinist, it must return to Paris in 1637. It paints the Martyre of Saint-Pierre , table which placed it at the highest row among its contemporaries. Excelling in all the kinds, it carries out bambochades or scenes of battle, with the taste of Parisian customers allured by a pallet rich colors. The young painter protesting with the temperament of fire assagit little by little; it receives important orders. Become in 1648 one of the twelve founding members of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, it dreams to create in Montpellier an Academy sister. In 1652, it is in Stockholm, invited by the queen Christine of Sweden which appoints it its first painter. In 1657, at the time of an ultimate stay in its birthplace, Bourdon paints the Fall of Simon the Magician for the Saint-Pierre cathedral, where this large table is always visible.

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