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The Book of Art for Young People

CHAPTER III
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was not the only art-loving King of his time.

You have read of John, King of France, who was taken prisoner at the Battle of Poitiers by the Black Prince, father of Richard.

During his captivity he lived in considerable state in London at the Savoy Palace, which occupied the site of the present Savoy Hotel in the Strand; he brought his own painter from France with him, who painted his portrait which still exists in Paris.

This King John was the father of four remarkable sons, Charles V., King of France, with whom Edward III.
and the Black Prince fought the latter part of the Hundred Years' War; Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy; John, Duke of Berry; and Louis, Duke of Anjou.

In this list, all are names of remarkable men and great art-patrons, about whom you may some day read interesting things.
Numerous lovely objects still in existence were made for them, and would not have been made at all if they had not been the men they were.
It was only just becoming possible in the fourteenth century for a prince to be an art-patron.


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