Les globes de Louis XIV, étude artistique, historique et matérielle. Sculpture as Blanchot understands it

as Blanchot understands it

were designed by the best workshops in Paris

accompanied on 312 large-format pages by 140 works by Filiger and various documents

with acuity and force

Les globes de Louis XIV, étude artistique, historique et matérielle. Sculpture as Blanchot understands itPresented by Cardinal d'Estres to Louis XIV in 1683, the terrestrial and celestial globes created by the Venetian cosmographer Vincenzo Coronelli are exceptional both for their size four meters in diameter and for what they reveal about the philosophical, scientific and artistic debates that agitated the court and the world of scientists at the end of the 17th century. Intended to serve the political ambition of their sponsor by flattering the