Patronage, Politics, Art, and the French Enlightenment
by
Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
This book recasts the import of Mme de Pompadour as a political and artistic patron at the court of Versailles in mid-eighteenth centery France. Pompadour's visual record is lush and the memoirs, diaries, correspondence, and political records are fecund examples of the weight she carried. In them...