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The Humanistic Tradition, 4/e
Gloria K. Fiero
Absolute Power and the Aristocratic Style

Chapter Outline

  1. Historical Context
    1. the Age of Absolutism
    2. the classical baroque style
  2. Louis XIV and French Absolutism
    1. Versailles
    2. art patronage and the academies
    3. Poussin and academic art
    4. the aristocratic style
      1. in portraiture
      2. in European painting
    5. music and dance at Versailles
    6. neoclassicism in French literature
      1. La Rochefoucauld
      2. Molière
  3. Absolutism and the Aristocratic Style beyond Europe
    1. Suleiman and the Ottoman Empire
    2. the Moguls of India
    3. China under Ming and Manchu (Qing) rule
    4. Tokugawa Japan








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