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The Fountain of Latona - Louis XIV, Charles Le Brun, and the Gardens of Versailles (Hardcover)
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The Fountain of Latona - Louis XIV, Charles Le Brun, and the Gardens of Versailles (Hardcover)
Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
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Ovid tells the story of Latona, the mother by Jupiter of Apollo and
Diana. In her flight from the jealous Juno, she arrives faint and
parched on the coast of Asia Minor. Kneeling to sip from a pond,
Latona is met by the local peasants, who not only deny her effort
but muddy the water in pure malice. Enraged, Latona calls a curse
down upon the stingy peasants, turning them to frogs. In his
masterful study, Thomas F. Hedin reveals how and why a fountain of
this strange legend was installed in the heart of Versailles in the
1660s, the inaugural decade of Louis XIV’s patronage there. The
natural supply of water was scarce and unwieldy, and it took the
genius of the king’s hydraulic engineers, working in partnership
with the landscape architect André Le Nôtre, to exploit it. If
Ovid’s peasants were punished for their stubborn denial of water,
so too the obstacles of coarse nature at Versailles were conquered;
the aquatic iconography of the fountain was equivalent to the
aquatic reality of the gardens. Latona was designed by Charles Le
Brun, the most powerful artist at the court of Louis XIV, and
carried out by Gaspard and Balthazar Marsy. The 1660s were rich in
artistic theory in France, and the artists of the fountain
delivered substantial lectures at the Académie royale de peinture
et de sculpture on subjects of central concern to their current
work. What they professed was what they were visualizing in the
gardens. As such, the fountain is an insider’s guide to the
leading artistic ideals of the moment. Louis XIV was viewed as the
reincarnation of Apollo, the god of creativity, the inspiration of
artists and scientists. Hedin’s original argument is that Latona
was a double declaration: a glorification of the king and a proud
manifesto by artists.
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Imprint: |
University of PennsylvaniaPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture |
Release date: |
May 2022 |
First published: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Thomas F. Hedin
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Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
296 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8122-5375-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8122-5375-2 |
Barcode: |
9780812253757 |
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