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🕰️✨ Step into 16th-century France! Meet King Francis I—warrior, art patron, and Renaissance legend. Are you ready to travel back in time? #FrancisI #Renaissance #HistoryAdventure youtu.be/G1SIWtZgHEk

Unknown French Artist
Portrait of #FrancisI (1494-1547), King of France, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1540s
Château de Chambord
#FrançoisI #Valois

School of François #Clouet (1510-72)
Portrait of #FrancisI (1494-1547), King of France, who was #BornOnThisDay
1540
Musée du Louvre
#FrançoisI #Valois

#Titian (1490-1576)
Portrait of #FrancisI (1494-1547), King of France, who was #BornOnThisDay
1539
Musée du Louvre
#FrançoisI #Valois

After #JoosvanCleve (ca. 1485-1540/1)
Portrait of #FrancisI (1494-1547), King of France, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1530s
Metropolitan Museum of Art
#FrançoisI #Valois

#JoosvanCleve (ca. 1485-1540/1)
Portrait of #FrancisI (1494-1547), King of France, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1532-3
Philadelphia Museum of Art
#FrançoisI #Valois

Jean #Clouet (1480-1541)
Portrait of #FrancisI (1494-1547), King of France, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1527-30
Musée du Louvre
#FrançoisI #Valois

Jean #Clouet (1480-1541)
Portrait of #FrancisI (1494-1547), King of France, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1515
Musée Condé
#FrançoisI #Valois