Art History 280 - COLQ: AGE OF LOUIS XIV

Topics course. Students may take up to four semesters of ARH 280 Art Historical Studies, as long as the topics are different.: An examination of the fundamental role of the visual arts in fashioning an extraordinary and indelible image of rulership during the reign (1643–1715) of Louis XIV. Ensembles and individual objects in many media—painting, sculpture, architecture, landscape design, prints, illustrated books, furniture, tapestries, numismatics, works commissioned or obtained in Rome, and literary production—will be related to the centralized bureaucracy that came to define the French state. Time permitting, we shall briefly consider the impact of the palace of Versailles on other European courts. Group A

Topic: Age of Louis XIV.