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The Sainte-Chapelle and the construction of sacral monarchy : royal architecture in thirteenth-century Paris /
"This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic architecture, the Sainte-Chapelle, constructed in Paris by King Louis IX of France between 1239 and 1248 especially to hold and to celebrate Christ's Crown of Thorns. Meredith Cohen argues that th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic architecture, the Sainte-Chapelle, constructed in Paris by King Louis IX of France between 1239 and 1248 especially to hold and to celebrate Christ's Crown of Thorns. Meredith Cohen argues that the chapel's architecture, decoration, and use conveyed the notion of sacral kingship to its audience in Paris and in greater Europe, thereby implicitly elevating the French king to the level of suzerain, and establishing an early visual precedent for the political theories of royal sovereignty and French absolutism. By setting the chapel within its broader urban and royal contexts, this book offers new insight into royal representation and the rise of Paris as a political and cultural capital in the thirteenth century"-- |
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| Notas: | Bases on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Columbia University, 2004). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 293 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139958691 1139958690 9781139957649 1139957643 9781139198332 1139198335 9781139959759 1139959751 9781139950206 1139950207 9781139949156 1139949152 9781139961868 1139961861 |