L'image du Roi de Francois Ier à Louis XIV sous la direction de Thomas W. Gaehtgens et Nicole Hochner Édition de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris 2006

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Passagen

The function of royal portraits cannot be reduced to illustration or to the mise-en-scène, because evocations of monarchs’ physical presence embody power and the State per se – such images, that is, have aesthetic, cultural, and political dimensions. Approaching the topic from historical, artistic and economic angles, the studies brought together here take us through Europe of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries and shed light on the role and the depictions of numerous European rulers of these eras.