Piety and Politics: Imaging Divine Kingship in Louis Xiv's Chapel at Versailles: Imagining Divine Kingship in Louis XIV's Chapel at Versailles - Rilegato

Edmunds, Martha Mel Stumberg

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ISBN 10: 0874136938 ISBN 13: 9780874136937

Casa editrice: Univ of Delaware Pr, 2002

Riassunto

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Louis XIV's magnificent final chapel at Versailles, completed in 1710 near the end of his long reign (1643-1715). Construction, begun in 1699 on foundations of 1689, spanned the offices of two premiers architects du roi, Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Robert de Cotte. Eight painters and over 100 sculptors participated in the monumental undertaking, which remains almost unchanged today. An unusually large number of archival documents, drawings, and early texts about the chapel allow a detailed reconstruction of its history and meaning. Given Louis XIV's renown as one of the great kings and art patrons of all history and the universal definitions of his power in terms of divine kingship, the story of his palace chapel interests all historians of the ancien regime.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Delaware Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0874136938
• ISBN 13: 9780874136937
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 318