TY - BOOK AU - Stone,Harriet TI - Crowning Glories: Netherlandish Realism and the French Imagination during the Reign of Louis XIV SN - 9781487504427 AV - DC126 .S766 2019 U1 - 709.4409032 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Toronto : PB - University of Toronto Press, KW - Art and society KW - France KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Arts, French KW - Painting, Dutch KW - Influence KW - Painting, Flemish KW - Realism in art KW - DISCOUNT-B KW - HISTORY / Europe / General KW - bisacsh KW - Dutch Golden Age KW - French KW - Louis XIV KW - Netherlandish realism KW - Northern realism KW - Sun King KW - century KW - classical theatre KW - court culture KW - cultural production KW - cultures KW - early modern period KW - eighteenth KW - epistemology KW - history of ideas KW - knowledge KW - rise of empiricism KW - systems N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Images --; Acknowledgments --; CROWNING GLORIES --; Introduction: Hiding in Plain Sight --; Part I: Divergent Patterns --; 1. Two Models in Context: Northern Realist Art in France --; 2. France at the Intersection: Configuring the French Response to Northern Realism --; Part II: Transformations --; 3. Fractured Spaces: Staging the King’s Portrait --; 4. In Death as in Life --; Part III: Patterns of Change --; 5. The Great Reveal --; 6. Legacies --; Coda: Trompe L’oeil Illusions and the Thoughts They Inspire --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Crowning Glories integrates Louis XIV’s propaganda campaigns, the transmission of Northern art into France, and the rise of empiricism in the eighteenth century – three historical touchstones – to examine what it would have meant for France’s elite to experience the arts in France simultaneously with Netherlandish realist painting. In an expansive study of cultural life under the Sun King, Harriet Stone considers the monarchy’s elaborate palace decors, the court’s official records, and the classical theatre alongside Northern images of daily life in private homes, urban markets, and country fields. Stone argues that Netherlandish art assumes an unobtrusive yet, for the history of ideas, surprisingly dramatic role within the flourishing of the arts, both visual and textual, in France during Louis XIV’s reign. Netherlandish realist art represented thinking about knowledge that challenged the monarchy’s hold on the French imagination, and its efforts to impose the king’s portrait as an ideal and proof of his authority. As objects appreciated for their aesthetic and market value, Northern realist paintings assumed an uncontroversial place in French royal and elite collections. Flemish and Dutch still lifes, genre paintings, and cityscapes, however, were not merely accoutrements of power, acquisitions made by those with influence and money. Crowning Glories reveals how the empirical orientation of Netherlandish realism exposed French court society to a radically different mode of thought, one that would gain full expression in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert UR - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487530143 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487530143 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487530143/original ER -