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DESCRIPTION:Robert Wellington will deliver a Françoise and Georges Selz Lec
 ture on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Decorative Arts and Cult
 ure on Tuesday\, January 26 at 6 pm. His talk is entitled “Sun King to Moo
 n King: Emulating the Grand Siècle in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centur
 ies.”At Bard Graduate Center\, Wellington will explore the appropriation a
 nd transformation of Louis XIV iconography and period style in eighteenth-
  and nineteenth-century decorative arts. Friends and enemies alike embrace
 d (and parodied) the visual and material culture of Louis’s court. When th
 e Duke of Marlborough routed the Sun King’s armies\, he claimed a thirty-t
 on marble bust of Louis XIV as a trophy for the façade of Blenheim Palace—
 a literal translation accompanied by broad iconographic emulations in the 
 tapestries and painted cycles made to celebrate British victories over the
  French. Such was the abiding power of the Sun King’s image in the late ni
 neteenth century that the eccentric Ludwig II created a replica of Versail
 les on an island in the Chiemsee lake in Bavaria. With his preference for 
 nocturnal living\, Ludwig fashioned himself as the Moon King\, a reflectio
 n of the solar persona of his illustrious forbear. From stately homes in B
 ritain to fantasy castles in Bavaria and beaux-arts buildings in New York\
 , this talk addresses the motives of the aristocrats and industrialists wh
 o echoed and reinterpreted Grand-Siècle style for their own ends.Robert We
 llington is a lecturer at the Center for Art History and Art Theory at the
  Australian National University. He is a specialist in the material and in
 tellectual culture of Louis XIV’s court. His current projects include an i
 nvestigation of Louis XIV prints and medals as objects of cross-cultural e
 xchange\, and a study of appropriations of the Sun King’s iconography in t
 he eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His book Antiquarianism and the Vi
 sual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past was published in 
 September 2015.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Sun King to Moon King: Emulating the Grand Si
 ècle in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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