Author : Dr Robert Wellington
Release : 2015-10-28
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 332/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV by : Dr Robert Wellington
Download or read book Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV written by Dr Robert Wellington. This book was released on 2015-10-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revisionary study provides a new interpretation of objects and images commissioned by Louis XIV (1638–1715) to document his reign for posterity. Robert Wellington uncovers a numismatic sensibility throughout the iconography of Louis XIV. He looks beyond the standard political reading of the works of art made to document the Sun King’s history, to argue that they are the results of a creative process wedded to antiquarianism, an intellectual culture that provided a model for the production of history in the grand siècle.