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The Hunt after Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour : Patronage, Politics, Art, and the French Enlightenment.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (415 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739149652
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Hunt after Jeanne-Antoinette de PompadourDDC classification:
  • 944/.034092
LOC classification:
  • DC135.P8H66 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
The Hunt afterJeanne-Antoinettede Pompadour -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Hunt after Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour: Beyond The Toilet of Venus -- Chapter 2 Pompadour at the Court of Versailles -- Chapter 3 Pompadour and Diplomacy -- Chapter 4 Pompadour and Artistic Patronage -- Chapter 5 Pompadour in a Culture of Enlightenment -- Chapter 6 The Pompadour Paradox -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: This book recast the import of Mme de Pompadour as a political and artistic patron at the cour of Versailles in mid eighteenth century France. Her visual record is lush and archival and printed sources demonstrate the degree to which she dazzled and enlightened culture, leaver her considerable imprint on pre-revolutionary France.
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The Hunt afterJeanne-Antoinettede Pompadour -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Hunt after Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour: Beyond The Toilet of Venus -- Chapter 2 Pompadour at the Court of Versailles -- Chapter 3 Pompadour and Diplomacy -- Chapter 4 Pompadour and Artistic Patronage -- Chapter 5 Pompadour in a Culture of Enlightenment -- Chapter 6 The Pompadour Paradox -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

This book recast the import of Mme de Pompadour as a political and artistic patron at the cour of Versailles in mid eighteenth century France. Her visual record is lush and archival and printed sources demonstrate the degree to which she dazzled and enlightened culture, leaver her considerable imprint on pre-revolutionary France.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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