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Article: Louis XVIII's cult[ural] politics, 1815-1820 *.(Critical essay)
- Article from:
- Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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In the course of the last ten years or so, our knowledge of visual culture produced in France during the Bourbon Restoration (1814/1815-1830) has increased considerably, thanks to the ground-breaking efforts of several scholars. (1) Of these contributions, Carol Duncan's analysis of the origins and public reception of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' monumental altarpiece for the provosts of Montauban cathedral, The Vow of Louis XIII (Salon of 1824), is surely one of the most original and convincing. (2) Duncan argues that the meaning of Ingres' picture, which shows a seventeenth-century Bourbon monarch swearing an oath of fidelity to the Virgin in return for an end to ...