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Zusatztext The refreshingly original and broad-ranging essays assembled in this volume eloquently demonstrate that Versailles was so much more than the magnificent palace of the Sun King. It was a domain, physical, cultural, artistic, political; an experience, and an idea, whose power, meanings, and effects still resonate today. Informationen zum Autor Mark Ledbury is Power Professor of Art History & Visual Culture and Director of the Power Institute at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of James Northcote, History Painting, and the Fables (2014) and Sedaine, Greuze and the Boundaries of Genre (2000). He is also the editor of three books, including Fictions of Art History (2013). Robert Wellington is Associate Professor of Art History in the Centre for Art History and Art Theory, The Australian National University, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London, UK, and co-editor of The Versailles Effect (2021). Klappentext 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 Château and the masterpieces of art and design that it contains mask a more complex and sometimes more sordid history of human struggle and achievement. The case studies presented by the contributors to this book cannot 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 the present day: from the palace of the Sun King to the Penthouse of Donald Trump. However, this innovative collection will reshape-or even radically redefine-our understanding of the palace of Versailles and its posterity. Vorwort A collection of essays on the art, architecture, and material culture of Versailles palace as experienced in the ancien régime and since. Zusammenfassung 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 Château and the masterpieces of art and design that it contains mask a more complex and sometimes more sordid history of human struggle and achievement. The case studies presented by the contributors to this book cannot 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 the present day: from the palace of the Sun King to the Penthouse of Donald Trump. However, this innovative collection will reshape—or even radically redefine—our understanding of the palace of Versailles and its posterity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Enduring Versailles Robert Wellington, Australian National University, Australia and Mark Ledbury, University of Sydney, Australia PART ONE: MAKING THE PALACE 1. The Other Palace: Versailles & the Louvre, Hannah Williams (Queen Mary University, UK) 2. The grands décors of Charles Le Brun: between plan and serendipity, Bénédicte Gady (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, France) 3. Artisans du roi: Collaboration at the Gobelins, Louvre and the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture under the Influence of the Petite Académie, Florian Knothe (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 4. Rough Surfaces: Etching Louis XIV's Grotto at Versailles, Louis Marchesano (Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA) PART TWO: VERSAILLES LIFE 5. Porcelain and Power: The Meaning of Sèvres Porcelain in ancien regime France, Matthew ...
