The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France by Gillian Weiss, Meredith Martin

The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France

Gillian Weiss, Meredith Martin

256 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Description

Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France’s King Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715). Yet most studies of French art in this period focus on Paris and Versailles, overlookin...

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