TY - JOUR

T1 - La balaustra della Chambre du Roi di Luigi XIV

T2 - L'architettura del bando

AU - Gigone, Fabio

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Authors. All rights reserved.

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - The paper examines the French monarch's double nature in the 17th century in relation to the evolution of the sovereign's architectural expressions. Born from the superimposition of theological and political aspects, the double nature of the French king manifested in iconographic formulas, legal apparatuses, linguistic mechanisms, and architectural devices. Among the latter, Louis XIV's Chambre du Roi in Versailles and its gilded balustraded represented the threshold between the natural and the mystical bodies. The paper detects the activation of the ban - embedded in Louis XIV's balustrade - as a juridical and political device that governs and manifests the French king's sovereign power, and it reveals its doubling.

AB - The paper examines the French monarch's double nature in the 17th century in relation to the evolution of the sovereign's architectural expressions. Born from the superimposition of theological and political aspects, the double nature of the French king manifested in iconographic formulas, legal apparatuses, linguistic mechanisms, and architectural devices. Among the latter, Louis XIV's Chambre du Roi in Versailles and its gilded balustraded represented the threshold between the natural and the mystical bodies. The paper detects the activation of the ban - embedded in Louis XIV's balustrade - as a juridical and political device that governs and manifests the French king's sovereign power, and it reveals its doubling.

KW - balustrade

KW - ban

KW - Louis XIV

KW - sovereignty

KW - Versailles

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85173685862&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.57644/Vesper008_019

DO - 10.57644/Vesper008_019

M3 - Tidsskriftartikel

AN - SCOPUS:85173685862

VL - 8

JO - Vesper

JF - Vesper

SN - 2704-7598

ER -