Reading the royal monument in eighteenth-century Europe / edited by Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau.

Title & Author:

Reading the royal monument in eighteenth-century Europe / edited by Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2010.

Description:

xviii, 214 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Subject/object : new studies in sculpture

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
King and others : multiple figures in French royal monuments of the modern era / Etienne Jollet -- Statues of Louis XV : illustrating the monarch's character in public squares whilst renewing urban art / Daniel Rabreau -- "Levez-vous citoyens!" : military reforms and the fate of the pedastal slaves in eighteenth-century France / Godehard Janzing -- 6 June, the king's birthday present : an insight into the history of royal monuments in Portugal at the end of the Ancien Régime / Miguel Figueira de Faria -- Monument to Peter the Great by Falconet : a place royale by the Neva? / Basile Baudez -- Two royal monuments in Stockholm / Johan Cederlund -- King of the new Republic : Houdon's equestrian monument to George Washington / David Bindman -- Independence in the imperial realm : political iconography and urbanism in eighteenth-century Palermo / Alexander Grönert -- Originals or replicas? : royal equestrian monuments in eighteenth-century Great Britain and Ireland / Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau -- Royal monuments and civic ritual in eighteenth-century Dublin / Philip McEvansoneya.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

9780754655756 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
075465575X (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Monuments Political aspects Europe.
Public spaces Political aspects Europe.
Kings and rulers in art.
Art and society Europe History 18th century.
Cities and towns Europe History 18th century.
Monuments Aspect politique Europe.
Espaces publics Aspect politique Europe.
Rois et souverains dans l'art.
Art et société Europe Histoire 18e siècle.
Villes Europe Histoire 18e siècle.
Art and society.
Cities and towns.
Monuments Political aspects.
Public spaces Political aspects.
Monument Europa 1700-talet.
Kungar i konsten.
Europe.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Chastel-Rousseau, Charlotte.
Subject/object--new studies in sculpture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 273280
Call No.: BIB 206802
Status: Available

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