Louis XIV's Architect: Louis Le Vau, France's Most Important Builder

by Richard Ballard

A must-read for those seeking to understand the intersection of politics and art in a pivotal moment of European history.

This is a study of royal absolutism in a most extreme form in modern European history, and of the nature of Louis XIV's concept of personal glory and of the embodiment of France as a new superpower. It is a study of political ideas expressed in architecture to establish Versailles as the centre of French world power...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399054198
• ISBN13: 9781399054195
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Length: 248 Pages