ARTH 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Valet De Chambre, Palazzo Pitti, Cardinal Mazarin
27 Nov 2017
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Louis xiv (cid:862) u(cid:374) ki(cid:374)g(cid:863), ki(cid:374)g of f(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e 16(cid:1008)(cid:1007)-1715. He became king at the age of 4, early years marked tby rebellion against his mom and chief minister cardinal mazarin, dev lifelong dislike of paris, spent more and more time in versaille. Mazarin died 1661, louis decided to rule as an absolute monarch, w/power directly from god. He took the sun and god apollo as emblems. Petit lever 830: first valet de chambre wakes the king. Imp and favoured members of the court, successively enter the kings bedroom while servants wash, shave, king and do his hair. Officers of the chamber and of the clothes storehouse initiate grand. Lever, in which king dresses and has soup. Most imp courtiers and most intimate royal servants attend (all men), up to 100 ppl. 1130 pm: coucher, the exact opposite of the lever. Pietro da cortona, ceiling, hall of apollo, palazzo pitti, 1647. Louis got the apollo admiration from the italian.
