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

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

Meredith Martin, Gillian Weiss

256 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

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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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