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Author : Sandra Rosenbaum
Release : 2014
Genre : Fashion
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Book Rating : 585/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV by : Sandra Rosenbaum
Download or read book Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV written by Sandra Rosenbaum. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Analyzing French fashion prints and what these images represent and reveal about the fashion and culture of the seventeenth-century"--
Author : Kathryn Norberg
Release : 2014
Genre : Design
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Book Synopsis Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV by : Kathryn Norberg
Download or read book Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV written by Kathryn Norberg. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Analyzing French fashion prints and what these images represent and reveal about the fashion and culture of the seventeenth-century."--Provided by publisher"--
Author : Peter Fuhring
Release : 2015-06-18
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 509/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Kingdom of Images by : Peter Fuhring
Download or read book A Kingdom of Images written by Peter Fuhring. This book was released on 2015-06-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once considered the golden age of French printmaking, Louis XIV’s reign saw Paris become a powerhouse of print production. During this time, the king aimed to make fine and decorative arts into signs of French taste and skill and, by extension, into markers of his imperialist glory. Prints were ideal for achieving these goals; reproducible and transportable, they fueled the sophisticated propaganda machine circulating images of Louis as both a man of war and a man of culture. This richly illustrated catalogue features more than one hundred prints from the Getty Research Institute and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, whose print collection Louis XIV established in 1667. An esteemed international group of contributors investigates the ways that cultural policies affected printmaking; explains what constitutes a print; describes how one became a printmaker; studies how prints were collected; and considers their reception in the ensuing centuries. A Kingdom of Images is published to coincide with an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute from June 18 through September 6, 2015, and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris from November 2, 2015, through January 31, 2016.
Author : Aurora von Goeth
Release : 2018-06-30
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 424/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Louis XIV by : Aurora von Goeth
Download or read book Louis XIV written by Aurora von Goeth. This book was released on 2018-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, straightforward biography of the seventeenth-century French monarch and his seventy-two-year reign. Innovator. Tyrant. Consummate showman. Passionate lover of women. After the death of King Louis XIII in 1643, the French crown went to his first-born son and heir, four-year old Louis XIV. In the extraordinary seventy-two years that followed, Louis le Grand—France’s self-styled “Sun King”—ruled France and its people, leaving his unique and permanent mark on history and shaping fashion, art, culture and architecture like none other before. This frank and concise book gives the reader a personal glimpse into the Sun King’s life and times as we follow his rise in power and influence: from a miraculous royal birth no one ever expected to the rise of king as absolute monarch, through the evolution of the glittering Château de Versailles, scandals and poison, four wars and many more mistresses . . . right up to his final days. Absolute monarch. Appointed by God. This is Louis XIV, the man. We will uncover his glorious and not-so-glorious obsessions. His debilitating health issues. His drive and passions. And we will dispel some myths, plus reveal the people in his intimate circle working behind the scenes on the Louis propaganda machine to ensure his legacy stayed in the history books forever. This easy-to-read narrative is accompanied by a plethora of little-known artworks, so if you’re a Louis XIV fan or student, or just eager to know more about France’s most famous king, we invite you to delve into court life of seventeenth-century French aristocracy, the period known as Le Grand Siècle—“The Grand Century.”
Author : Dr Robert Wellington
Release : 2015-10-28
Genre : Art
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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.
