Vaux and Versailles : the appropriations, erasures, and accidents that made modern France / Claire Goldstein.

Main entry:

Goldstein, Claire.

Title & Author:

Vaux and Versailles : the appropriations, erasures, and accidents that made modern France / Claire Goldstein.

Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press ; [Bristol] : [University Presses Marketing, distributor], 2007.

Description:

viii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary:

Goldstein shows how the connection between Vaux and Versailles is at the heart of classical style. She retraces the roots of Versailles in Fouquet's short-lived experiment, and destabilises any easy understanding of the court of the Sun King as the origin of French national style.

ISBN:

9780812240580 (hbk.)
0812240588 (hbk.)

Subject:

Château de Versailles (Versailles, France)
Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Maincy, France)
Civilization.
France History Louis XIV, 1643-1715.
France Civilization 18th century.
France Civilization 17th century.
France Civilisation 18e siècle.
France Civilisation 17e siècle.
France.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257184
Call No.: BIB 187628
Status: Available

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