The Versailles effect : objects, lives, and afterlives of the domaine

Format:: Book
Language:: English
Imprint:: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2020 and ©2020
Subject:: Château de Versailles (Versailles, France)
Architecture and society - France - Versailles
Art and society - France - Versailles
Contributor:: Ledbury, Mark (Andrew Mark), editor
Wellington, Robert, editor
ISBN:: 9781501357787 and 1501357786
Series:: Material culture of art and design
Description:: xix, 297 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Bibliographic Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:: Enduring Versailles / Robert Wellington and Mark Ledbury -- Part I. Making the palace -- The other palace : Versailles & the Louvre / Hannah Williams -- The grands décors of Charles le Brun : between plan and serendipity / Bénédicte Gady -- Artisans du roi : collaboration at the Gobelins, Louvre and the Académie Royale de Deinture et de Sculpture under the influence of the Petite Académie / Florian Knothe -- Rough surfaces : etching Louis XIV's grotto at Versailles / Louis Marchesano -- Part II. Versailles life -- Porcelain and power : the meaning of Sèvres porcelain in Ancien-Régime France / Matthew Martin -- Hair, politics, and power at the court of Versailles / Kimberly Chrisman Campbell -- The politics of attachment : visualizing young Louis XV and his governess / Mimi Hellman -- Courting favour : the apartments of the Princesse de Lamballe at Versailles, 1767-1789 / Sarah Grant -- Part III. Outsiders -- Enslaved Muslims at the Sun King's court / Meredith Martin -- A Turk in the Hall of Mirrors / David Maskill -- Cornelis Hop (1685-1762), Dutch ambassador to the court of Louis XV / Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide -- Part IV. Versailles now -- Melancholy, nostalgia, dreams : adventures in the Grand Cimetière Magique / Mark Ledbury -- American Versailles : from the gilded age to generation wealth / Robert Wellington
Summary:: "The essays in this volume show that Versailles was not the static creation of one man, but a hugely complex cultural space, a centre of power, but also of life, love, anxiety, creation, and an enduring palimpsest of aspirations, desires and ruptures. The splendour of the chateau and the masterpieces of art and design that it contains masks a more complex and sometimes more sordid history of human struggle and achievement. The case studies presented by the contributors to this book cannot hope to provide a comprehensive account of the Palace of Versailles and its domains, the life within its walls, its visitors and the art and architecture that it has inspired from the seventeenth century to now: From the palace of the Sun King to the Penthouse of Donald Trump. This innovative collection of essays will reshape, even radically redefine our understanding of the palace of Versailles and its posterity"-- Provided by publisher
Collection:: BGC Monograph Stacks
Call Number:: DC801.V56 V372 2020
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