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Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV - Artifacts for a Future Past (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV - Artifacts for a Future Past (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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 regime
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 siecle.
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