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Crowning glories : Netherlandish realism and the French imagination during the reign of Louis XIV

Stone, Harriet Amy, 1953- author

2019

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\"Crowning Glories integrates Louis XIV's propaganda campaigns, the transmission of Northern art into France, and the rise of empiricism in the eighteenth century--three historical touchstones--to examine what it would have meant for France's elite to experience the arts in France simultaneously with Netherlandish realist painting. In an expansive study of cultural life under the Sun King, Harriet Stone considers the monarchy's elaborate palace decors, the court's official records, and the classical theatre alongside Northern images of daily life in private homes, urban markets, and country fields. Stone argues that Netherlandish art assumes an unobtrusive yet, for the history of ideas, surprisingly dramatic role within the flourishing of the arts, both visual and textual, in France during Louis XIV's reign. Netherlandish realist art represented thinking about knowledge that challenged the monarchy's hold on the French imagination, and its efforts to impose the king's portrait as an ideal and proof of his authority. As objects appreciated for their aesthetic and market value, Northern realist paintings assumed an uncontroversial place in French royal and elite collections. Flemish and Dutch still lifes, genre paintings, and cityscapes, however, were not merely accoutrements of power, acquisitions made by those with influence and money. Crowning Glories reveals how the empirical orientation of Netherlandish realism exposed French court society to a radically different mode of thought, one that would gain full expression in the Encyclopâedie of Diderot and d'Alembert.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Subject: Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 Art patronage. / Louis XIV, Roi de France, 1638-1715 Mâecâenat. / Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715. / 1600-1699 / Arts, French 17th century. / Painting, Dutch 17th century Influence. / Painting, Flemish 17th century Influence. / Realism in art History 17th century. / Art and society France History 17th century. / Arts franًcais 17e siلecle. / Peinture nâeerlandaise 17e siلecle Influence. / Peinture flamande 17e siلecle Influence. / Râealisme dans l'art Histoire 17e siلecle. / Art et sociâetâe France Histoire 17e siلecle. / Art and society. / Art patronage. / Arts, French. / Courts and courtiers. / Painting, Dutch Influence. / Painting, Flemish Influence. / Realism in art. / France Courts and courtiers History 17th century. / France Court and courtiers Histoire 17e siلecle. / France.
• ISBN: 9781487504427, 148750442X

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