The Versailles Effect by Ledbury, Mark; Wellington, Robert;

Objects, Lives, and Afterlives of the Domaine

Series: Material Culture of Art and Design;

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Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Date of Publication 18 April 2024
Number of Volumes Paperback

ISBN 9781350437593
Binding Paperback
No. of pages320 pages
Size 228x150x20 mm
Weight 460 g
Language English
Illustrations 71 bw illus

Long description:

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 Chï¿1⁄2teau 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.

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 dï¿1⁄2cors of Charles Le Brun: between plan and serendipity, Bï¿1⁄2nï¿1⁄2dicte Gady (Musï¿1⁄2e des Arts Dï¿1⁄2coratifs, France)
3. Artisans du roi: Collaboration at the Gobelins, Louvre and the Acadï¿1⁄2mie royale de peinture et de sculpture under the Influence of the Petite Acadï¿1⁄2mie, 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 Sï¿1⁄2vres Porcelain in ancien regime France, Matthew Martin (National Gallery of Victoria, Australia)
6. Hair, Politics, and Power at the Court of Versailles, Kimberly Chrisman Campbell (Independent scholar, USA)
7. The Politics of Attachment: Visualizing Young Louis XV and his Governess, Mimi Hellman (Skidmore College, USA)
8. Courting favour: the apartments of the princesse de Lamballe at Versailles, 1767-1789, Sarah Grant (Victoria and Albert Museum, UK)

PART THREE: OUTSIDERS
9. Enslaved Muslims at the Sun King's Court, Meredith Martin (New York University, USA) and Gillian Weiss (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
10. A Turk in the Hall of Mirrors, David Maskill (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
11. Cornelis Hop (1685-1762), Dutch Ambassador to the Court of Louis XV, Daniï¿1⁄2lle Kisluk-Grosheide (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA)

VERSAILLES NOW
12. Melancholy, Nostalgia, Dreams: Adventures in the Grand Cimetiï¿1⁄2re Magique, Mark Ledbury (University of Sydney, Australia)
13. American Versailles: from the Gilded Age to Generation Wealth, Robert Wellington (Australian National University, Australia)

Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index