The Fabrication of Louis XIV
Hardbound
1992 · New Haven, Connecticut
by Burke, Peter
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1992. Hardbound. Good and tight but with notations and underlining on several pages; dj slightly wrinkled;. Blue cloth with gold lettering; color pictorial dj with gold lettering; 242 pp. with 88 bw illustrations;. Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed him into a godlike figure. This engrossing book shows how the making of the royal image illuminates the relationship between art and power. (Inventory #: 118084)