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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Louis XV"”.
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Pouvoir féminin à la cour de Louis XV
… des femmes de la haute aristocratie à la cour de Louis XV (1723-1774). La société de cour, telle que théorisée par le sociologue Norbert Elias, était formée d’une multitude de réseaux de courtisans dans lesquels les femmes jouaient des rôles essentiels. Ne pouvant exercer le pouvoir politique au …
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Kings and Courtesans: A Study of the Pictorial Representation of French Royal Mistresses
… Henri IV; and Madame de Pompadour, mistress to Louis XV. By placing the portrayals of these women within a historical context, it becomes apparent that there are links between the strength of the crown and the depictions of the mistresses. This thesis traces the development of the imagery …
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Kings and Courtesans: A Study of the Pictorial Representation of French Royal Mistresses
… Henri IV; and Madame de Pompadour, mistress to Louis XV. By placing the portrayals of these women within a historical context, it becomes apparent that there are links between the strength of the crown and the depictions of the mistresses. This thesis traces the development of the imagery …
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Dining and revelry in French rococo art
… renovations undertaken during the reign of Louis XV. In 1730s, the young king commissioned four paintings for newly conceived private dining rooms at Versailles and Fontainebleau. For the king's new salle à manger at Versailles, the Bâtiments du Roi asked Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752) to …
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The rhetoric of architecture and the language of pleasure : the maison de plaisance in eighteen-century France
… pleasures at Louveciennes for the mistress of Louis XV named Madame du Barry. The second project is an imagined house for a Marchande de modes (woman milliner tailor) represented in Ledoux's treatise entitled Architecture considered in relation to art, mores, and legislation, published in 1804.