Title & Author:

A kingdom of images : French prints in the age of Louis XIV, 1660-1715 / edited by Peter Fuhring, Louis Marchesano, Rémi Mathis, and Vanessa Selbach.

Publication:

©2015
Los Angeles : The Getty Research Institute, [2015]

Description:

xi, 332 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition A Kingdom of Images: French prints in the age of Louis XIV, 1660-1715, on view at the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from 16 June to 6 September, 2015, and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, from 2 November 2015 to 31 January 2016 with the title Images du Grand Siècle: l'estampe française sous Louis XIV, 1660-1715"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-316) and indexes.
The arts in the service of the king's glory / Thomas W. Gaehtgens -- Printmaking under Louis XIV / Maxime Préaud -- What is a print? The fabrication of images / Vanessa Selbach -- What is a printmaker? / Rémi Mathis -- Publishers, sellers, and the market / Peter Fuhring -- Collectors and collecting prints / Véronique Meyer -- On the critical fortune of Girard Audran and Gérard Edelinck / Louis Marchesano -- Catalog. The glory of the king : portraits, allegories, histories ; Architecture and views : Les Invalides, the Louvre, Versailles ; Decorative arts, design, taste ; The arts ; The portrait ; Religion ; Human nature ; Events.

Summary:

"Once considered the golden age of French printmaking, Louis XIV's reign saw Paris become a powerhouse of print production. During this time, the king aimed to make fine and decorative arts into signs of French taste and skill and, by extension, into markers of his imperialist glory. Prints were ideal for achieving these goals; reproducible and transportable, they fueled the sophisticated propaganda machine circulating images of Louis as both a man of war and a man of culture. This richly illustrated catalogue features more than one hundred prints from the Getty Research Institute and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, whose print collection Louis XIV established in 1667. An esteemed international group of contributors investigates the ways that cultural policies affected printmaking; explains what constitutes a print; describes how one became a printmaker; studies how prints were collected; and considers their reception in the ensuing centuries."-- Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9781606064504
1606064509
9782717726633

Subject:

Prints, French 17th century Exhibitions.
Prints, French 18th century Exhibitions.
Estampe française 17e siècle Expositions.
Estampe française 18e siècle Expositions.
21.32 history of the graphic arts.
Prints, French.
Tidigt tryckta böcker.
Illustrerade böcker historia.
1660-1715

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Fuhring, Peter, editor.
Marchesano, Louis, editor.
Mathis, Rémi, 1982- editor.
Selbach, Vanessa, editor.
Getty Research Institute, host institution.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, host institution.
Images du grand siècle.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290485
Call No.: BIB 233502
Status: Available