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Item Number: 135272
Title: Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV : Artifacts for a Future Past
Author: Wellington, Robert
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781472460332
Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. 24cm., hardcover, 258pp., 8 color, 79 b&w illus. Contents: Introduction: medals and the material turn in the king’s history; Antiquarianism at court; The Petite Académie and the histoire métallique of Louis XIV; The Cabinet des Médailles at Versailles; Images inscribed and described by the Petite Académie; The antiquarian origins of Louis XIV’s medals books; Portraiture, physiognomy, and the numismatic sensibility; Numismatic resonances: Le Brun’s cycle for the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.

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