The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France
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The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France
W032718 | $60.00
Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2021.
256 pp. Well Illustrated (chiefly col.). 27 x 20 cm. LC 2021-12217 In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9781606067307
This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV. Mediterranean maritime art, and the forced labor on which it depended, was fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France’s King Louis XIV. Most studies of French art in this period focus on Paris and Versailles, paying little attention to the presence or portrayal of galley slaves on the kingdom’s coasts. By examining a wide range of artistic productions -- ship design, artillery sculpture, medals, paintings, and prints --Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss uncover a vital aspect of royal representation and unsettle a standard picture of art and power during Louis XIV’s reign. With an abundant selection of startling images, many never before published, The Sun King at Sea emphasizes the role of esclaves turcs (enslaved Turks) -- rowers who were captured or purchased from Islamic lands -- in building and decorating ships and other art objects that circulated between coast and capital to proclaim the power of the Sun King. This cross-disciplinary study challenges the conventional notion that human bondage vanished from continental France before the modern period. It invites a reassessment of servitude as a visible condition, mode of representation, and symbol of sovereignty in early modern France.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- 1600-1800 -- Several Fine Arts Media (Western) --
W032718 | $60.00
Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2021.
256 pp. Well Illustrated (chiefly col.). 27 x 20 cm. LC 2021-12217 In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9781606067307
This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV. Mediterranean maritime art, and the forced labor on which it depended, was fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France’s King Louis XIV. Most studies of French art in this period focus on Paris and Versailles, paying little attention to the presence or portrayal of galley slaves on the kingdom’s coasts. By examining a wide range of artistic productions -- ship design, artillery sculpture, medals, paintings, and prints --Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss uncover a vital aspect of royal representation and unsettle a standard picture of art and power during Louis XIV’s reign. With an abundant selection of startling images, many never before published, The Sun King at Sea emphasizes the role of esclaves turcs (enslaved Turks) -- rowers who were captured or purchased from Islamic lands -- in building and decorating ships and other art objects that circulated between coast and capital to proclaim the power of the Sun King. This cross-disciplinary study challenges the conventional notion that human bondage vanished from continental France before the modern period. It invites a reassessment of servitude as a visible condition, mode of representation, and symbol of sovereignty in early modern France.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- 1600-1800 -- Several Fine Arts Media (Western) --
