Crowning Glories: Netherlandish Realism and the French Imagination during the Reign of Louis XIV

Harriet Stone

Published by University of Toronto Press 2019

Crowning Glories

Netherlandish Realism and the French Imagination during the Reign of Louis XIV

Harriet Stone

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487530143

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About this book

Examining cultural production during the reign of Louis XIV, Crowning Glories brings together the role of the arts in the monarchy’s propaganda wars, the significance of Netherlandish realism in France, and the rise of empiricism in the early modern period.

Author / Editor information

Stone Harriet :

Harriet Stone is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis.

Reviews

Hanneke Grootenboer, Radboud University:

"Stone makes a persuasive claim by demonstrating how Dutch realistic painting gradually chipped away at the French monarchy’s hold on ideas.[…] This claim is bold enough to require extensive explanation, which Stone provides within a strong conceptual framework."

Richard Maber:
"This work is notable for its rich, sensitive, and perceptive analysis of the artistic works, and the thought-provoking parallels and contrasts developed throughout."

Louise Horowitz, professor emerita of French, Rutgers University:

"Harriet Stone, an eminent scholar of early modern Europe, has written an exciting, original, and beautifully composed work. This work offers a genuine comparative paradigm grounded firmly in rigorous scholarship. It readily transcends the limitations traditionally imposed by many practitioners of art history and by those scholars focused specifically on the French seventeenth and eighteenth centuries."

Mitchell Greenberg, Goldwin Smith Professor of Romance Studies, Chair, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University:

"Crowning Glories is insightful, original, and certainly innovative. To my knowledge, no other work offers so interesting a cultural and historical appreciation of two of the most creative and lasting artistic traditions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European society."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Images Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
CROWNING GLORIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Introduction: Hiding in Plain Sight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Part I: Divergent Patterns
1. Two Models in Context: Northern Realist Art in France Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2. France at the Intersection: Configuring the French Response to Northern Realism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Part II: Transformations
3. Fractured Spaces: Staging the King’s Portrait Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
4. In Death as in Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Part III: Patterns of Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
5. The Great Reveal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
6. Legacies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Coda: Trompe L’oeil Illusions and the Thoughts They Inspire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 42
- Other: 42 b&w illustrations
Keywords: Louis XIV; Netherlandish realism; Northern realism; Dutch Golden Age; French; court culture; classical theatre; Sun King; systems; cultures; knowledge; epistemology; history of ideas; early modern period; cultural production; rise of empiricism; eighteenth; century

eBook

Published: April 3, 2019
ISBN: 9781487530143