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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ROYAL MONUMENTS AND URBAN PUBLIC SPACE IN 18th- CENTURY EUROPE
8 - 9 March 2002
Lecture Theatre, Leeds City Art Gallery
& Henry Moore Institute
This conference attempts, for the first time, to synthesise new approaches to royal monuments by subjecting them to a Europe-wide survey. The two days will be organised in four sessions:
Representation and Reception
Objects – Environments
The Politics of the Royal Monument: Patronage and Identity
L’Europe française au dix-huitième siècle’?
Conference fees are £40 full, £15 student rate, inclusive of all refreshments.
Chaired by Malcolm Baker (V&A), Nigel Llewellyn (University of Sussex), Alison Yarrington (University of Leicester).
Organised by Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau (HMI Research Fellow)
Speakers and topics:
Christoph Frank (Forschungszentrum Europaïsche Aufklarung Postdam, Germany)
"Que cent flatteurs gagaz travaillent à ta Gloire”: The monuments of Louis XIV of France and the Great Elector
Frederick William of Brandenburg in the light of contemporary pamphletary response
Sophie Descat (Centre Ledoux, Paris I-Panthéon- Sorbonne, France) / Eric Monin (Ecole d’architecture de Nantes, France)
Did function outweigh aesthetics? Re-reading the Monuments érigés en France à la gloire de Louis XV by Pierre Patte (1765):
new conceptions of the place royale in eighteenth-century Paris
John Moore (Smith College, Northampton, Mass., USA)
Ephemeral Royal Monuments and International Diplomacy in Eighteenth-Century Rome
Valerie Mainz (University of Leeds)
Royal effigies, urban displays and municipal ceremonies in mid eighteenth-century France
Andreas Köstler (Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, Bochum, Germany)
Allegory in crisis: Pigalle’s monument to Louis XV and its reception
Etienne Jollet (Université François Rabelais, Tours, France)
The celebration and its limits : the pedestal and the royal monument in 18th- century France
Godehard Janzing (Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, France)
Levez vous, Citoyens- Military reforms and the fate of the pedestal slaves in 18th-century France and Prussia
Nuno Saldanha (Casa-Museu dos Patudos, Alpiarça Portugal)
The Palace, the Market and the Black Horse -The Equestrian statue of King José I in Lisbon
Yoann Brault (Centre Ledoux, Paris I- Panthéon- Sorbonne, France)
Une iconologie sacrifiée: les portes triomphales de Paris et leurs sculptures (1670-1676)
Alexander Grönert (University of Tübingen, Germany / Bib. Hertziana, Rome, Italy)
Independence in the Realm of the
Kaiser – Political Iconography and Urbanism in 18th Century Palermo
Pascal Lievaux (Université François Rabelais, Tours, France)
The King and the Cities : Town Halls and Royal Propaganda in Eighteenth-century France
Dominique Massounie (Centre Ledoux, Paris I-Panthéon- Sorbonne, France)
The Royal Fountain: A Desanctified Effigy of the Monarch
Philip McEvansoneya (Trinity College, Dublin)
Royal monuments, civic ritual and Protestant nationalism in late eighteenth-century Dublin
Charles Avery (Historian of Sculpture and Independent Fine Art Consultant)
'Carolus Magnus'- Hubert Le Sueur's equestrian monument to King Charles I (1633)
Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau (Henry Moore Institute Research Fellow)
The Royal Monuments and their Patrons in Georgian Great Britain
Daniel Rabreau (Centre Ledoux, Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
Les statues de Louis XV: le caractère du souverain illustré sur la place publique
Basile Baudez (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France)
The Monument to Peter the Great by Falconet: a ‘Place Royale’ by the river Neva?
Renata Tyszczuk (University of Cambridge)
C'est plus qu'un Roi! Stanislas Leszczynski’s Place Royale, Nancy, 1752-1755
Johan Cederlund (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden)
Pierre Hubert L’Archevêque and his Royal Monuments in Stockholm
David Bindman (University College London)
King of the Republic : Houdon’s equestrian monument to George Washington
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