Laying Louis XIV to Rest
Why are there so few images of Louis XIV’s death?
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All Posts by Louis Marchesano
I'm curator of prints and drawings at the Getty Research Institute.
A 17th-Century Face-Off
Masterpieces aren’t the only important objects in art history.
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Louis XIV’s Golden Dome
A rare print for the dome of the Invalides in Paris reflects Louis XIV’s ambitions to make Paris “a new European center of architectural magnificence.”
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“The Everlasting Cycle of Becoming and Fading”: Thomas W. Gaehtgens on Philipp Otto Runge’s “Times of Day”
“Runge’s prints represent far more than merely the times of day. The cycle of the day represents in fact the cycle of life.”
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Philipp Otto Runge’s “Times of Day,” A Monument of German Romantic Art
This remarkable four-print series depicts the coming and departing of light, which points to the cycles of life from conception to death.
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Recovering Lost History in Le Brun’s Prints
In 2003 the Getty Research Institute acquired hundreds of 17th-century French prints that had been in the collection of a European noble family. This... Read More