Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV
Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV

Author: Robert Wellington

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1351576402

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Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past provides a new interpretation of objects and images commissioned by Louis XIV (1638-1715) to document his reign for posterity. The Sun King's image-makers based their prediction of how future historians would interpret the material remains of their culture on contemporary antiquarian methods, creating new works of art as artifacts for a future time. The need for such items to function as historical evidence led to many pictorial developments, and medals played a central role in this. Coin-like in form but not currency, the medal was the consummate antiquarian object, made in imitation of ancient coins used to study the past. Yet medals are often elided from the narrative of the arts of ancient r?me France, their neglect wholly disproportionate to the cultural status that they once held. This revisionary study uncovers a numismatic sensibility throughout the iconography of Louis XIV, and in the defining monuments of his age. It looks beyond the standard political reading of the works of art made to document Louis XIV'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 si?e.

Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1867 ... Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty: Containing reports on oil, and other paintings. Sculpture. Architecture. Engraving. Printing and stationery. Applied art. Photography. Scientific apparatus. Furniture and decoration. Glass, pottery, and terra cotta. Plate, jewellery, and art metal work. Leather and fancy work, and perfumery
Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1867 ... Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty: Containing reports on oil, and other paintings. Sculpture. Architecture. Engraving. Printing and stationery. Applied art. Photography. Scientific apparatus. Furniture and decoration. Glass, pottery, and terra cotta. Plate, jewellery, and art metal work. Leather and fancy work, and perfumery

Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission for the Paris Exhibition (1867)

Publisher:

Published: 1868

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13:

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Paris Savant
Paris Savant

Author: Bruno Belhoste

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-05-17

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0199382557

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Novelist Honoré de Balzac was the first to use the phrase "Paris savant" to refer to the dynamic Parisian scientific and intellectual community of the late 18th century. The Academy of Sciences was highly active during this time, and was a meeting place for intellectual and scientific elite, who worked together toward the diffusion of scientific knowledge into Parisian society. The Royal Observatory was a headquarters for French astronomy, as well as the great geodesic project to map all of France. The Royal Mint hosted courses in chemistry and mining, and the Arsenal near the Bastille housed the laboratory of Lavoisier, the most celebrated chemist of the age. This book is the English translation of Bruno Belhoste's Paris Savant: Encounters in Enlightenment Science, originally published in France in 2011. Belhoste discusses how the Parisian scientific community came into its important place in the French Enlightenment, focusing on the Academy of Sciences. Chapters cover subjects such as what role Parisian geography played in the movement, the contributions of French scientists to industrial and urban improvement, and how the Academy of Sciences clashed with the revolutionary crisis, resulting in its closing in 1793. The translation includes a prologue for English readers.