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The Salon de la Paix (1682-1687) at Versailles

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Among the profusion of publications devoted to the Galerie des Glaces at the Château de Versailles, none has so far been devoted to an analysis of the Salon de la Paix (1684-1687), which is in a sense the culmination of the work. The sources for tracing its program and execution are relatively abundant; its iconography deserves to be examined in detail in the light of the context of propaganda at its pinnacle during these years, when Louis XIV installed his court at Versailles after a decade of design and work for the palace. This paper will begin with the gradual construction of the King's image, which from the outset was strongly associated with the music he practiced and protected. It will then show how the absolutist political project is embodied in the symmetry of the architectural and decorative program of the Galerie des Glaces. It opens with the Salon de la Guerre and ends, like an apotheosis, with the Salon de la Paix. Its pictorial program, again entrusted to Charles Lebrun, evokes the Christian Europe (France, Spain and Germany) and the benefits of peace, which is conducive to the development of the arts and sciences: music is indeed predominantly present among literature, comedy, painting and drawing, astronomy and geometry. The detailed analysis of the gorgeous metal reliefs and their trophies of musical instruments will allow us to understand how Antique motifs anchor the reign in a glorious temporality, while at the same time intertwining them with a highly actual instrumentarium, the details of which show the coexistence of traditions but also of innovations in instrument making being experimented before our eyes (i.e. for oboes, flutes, musettes, guitars, violins etc.). The symbolic, political and musical interpretation of this ensemble will allow us to underline a methodological approach while understanding this moment of civilization and its importance as a still unexploited source for historically informed interpretation.
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halshs-04277018, version 1 (09-11-2023)

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Florence Gétreau. The Salon de la Paix (1682-1687) at Versailles: The iconology of an Encomiastic Program Embodied as a Political and Musical Allegory. Music and the Figurative Arts in the Baroque Era, Institut d'Estudis Catalans - Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, May 2023, Barcelone, Spain. ⟨halshs-04277018⟩
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