Main entry:

Edmunds, Martha Mel Stumberg, 1939-

Title & Author:

Piety and politics : imaging divine kingship in Louis XIV's chapel at Versailles / Martha Mel Stumberg Edmunds.

Publication:

Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©2002.

Description:

318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Series:

University of Delaware Press studies in 17th- and 18th- century art and culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-312) and index.
Introduction: The Sun King in His Chapel -- 1. Sacred Kingship, Sacred King: The Role of Religion for Louis XIV -- 2. The Versailles Chapel and Louis XIV's Patronage of Religious Architecture -- 3. Creating a Worthy Monument: Le Lieu le plus magnifique de ce somptueux & brillant Palais -- 4. Completing the Chapel: Paintings, Sculptures, Altars, and Furnishings -- 5. Christian Themes and Divine Kingship: The Significance of Decoration in the Versailles Chapel -- 6. The Versailles Chapel as an Enduring Image of Divine Kingship -- App. Inventory of Drawings, Sculptures, Paintings, Altars, and Furniture.

Summary:

"This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Louis XIV's magnificent final chapel at Versailles, completed in 1710 near the end of his long reign (1643-1715). Construction, begun in 1699 on foundations of 1689, spanned the offices of two premiers architects du roi, Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Robert de Cotte. Eight painters and over 100 sculptors participated in the monumental undertaking, which remains almost unchanged today. An unusually large number of archival documents, drawings, and early texts about the chapel allow a detailed reconstruction of its history and meaning.
Given Louis XIV's renown as one of the great kings and art patrons of all history and the universal definitions of his power in terms of divine kingship, the story of his palace chapel interests all historians of the ancien regime."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0874136938 (alk. paper)
9780874136937 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 Religion.
Louis XIV, roi de France, 1638-1715 Religion.
Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715
Château de Versailles (Versailles, France)
Chapels royal France Versailles.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural France Versailles.
Chapelles palatines France Versailles.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux France Versailles.
Chapels royal.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
Religion.
Ausstattung
Geschichte
Kapellen (bouwkunst)
Chateau de Versailles.
Decoratieprogramma's.
France Versailles.
Versailles Schloss Schlosskapelle.
Kapellen (bouwkunst) Chateau de Versailles Decoratieprogramma's Louis XIV roi de France 1638-1715 Religion Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) Chapelles palatines Décoration et ornement architecturaux.

Added entries:

University of Delaware Press studies in 17th- and 18th- century art and culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222739
Call No.: NA44.M2862.25 C3 2002
Status: Available