The king is dancing. Political Theater of the Royal Power of France under Louis XIV
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The study is devoted to the representatives of the royal power of France of the old order - how different types of art served as the interests of the state under the absolute monarchy.
The rich material of the court ballet, a favorite type of spectacle of the French court and Parisian society, allows you to study one of the faces of the creation of a positive social image of the monarch from the 16th century to 1670, from the birth of this genre of the musical theater to the time when it practically ceased to exist.
In the center of the study, there is a representative policy of Louis XIV, who, unlike his predecessors and heirs, used the capabilities of the court ballet to the full. How Louis XIV turned ballet productions into an effective instrument of representation, how they helped him in solving the tasks of domestic and foreign policy and, finally, what meaning the monarch invested in the symbol of the sun he chose - this book answers these questions
The rich material of the court ballet, a favorite type of spectacle of the French court and Parisian society, allows you to study one of the faces of the creation of a positive social image of the monarch from the 16th century to 1670, from the birth of this genre of the musical theater to the time when it practically ceased to exist.
In the center of the study, there is a representative policy of Louis XIV, who, unlike his predecessors and heirs, used the capabilities of the court ballet to the full. How Louis XIV turned ballet productions into an effective instrument of representation, how they helped him in solving the tasks of domestic and foreign policy and, finally, what meaning the monarch invested in the symbol of the sun he chose - this book answers these questions
Author:
Author:Sidorenko Maxim Anatolyevich
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
Series:
Series: Library of World History
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-02-040335-2
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