Reading the Royal Monument in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau PDF

By Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau

examining the Royal Monument in Eighteenth-Century Europe is the 1st in-depth examine of the main function performed via royal monuments within the public area of increasing towns throughout eighteenth-century Europe. utilizing the royal public statues because the foundation for its exam of recent eu towns, the e-book considers the advance of city landscapes from the construction of capital towns to the final embers of the Ancien R?me and at how the royal politics of the humanities affected the cityscapes of the time. the focal point of the e-book thereby intersects throughout a spectrum of disciplines, together with the social and architectural historical past of towns, the politics of city making plans, the historical past of huge sculpture, and the cloth tradition of the eighteenth century.

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