Reading the Royal Monument in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau received a PhD in history of art from the Université Paris I- Panthéon- Sorbonne on 'Royal monuments and public space in Great-Britain and Ireland, 1714-1820' in 2005. After ten years spent in England, in Oxford, London, and Leeds, she now lives in Paris and works in the Musée du Louvre for the art-historical programmes in the auditorium. She has mainly written on eighteenth-century British and French monumental sculpture and town-planning and is currently particularly interested in the circulation of artistic models and ideas in a European cultural space from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century.

• Contents: Preface, Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau; Introduction, Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau; The king and others: multiple figures in French royal monuments of the modern era, Etienne Jollet; Statues of Louis XV: illustrating the monarch's character in public squares whilst renewing urban art, Daniel Rabreau; 'Levez-vous, citoyens!' Military reforms and the fate of the pedestal slaves in 18th-century France, Godehard Janzing; 6 June, the king's birthday present: an insight into the history of royal monuments in Portugal at the end of the ancien régime, Miguel Figueira de Faria; The monument to Peter the Great by Falconet: a place royale by the Neva?, Basile Baudez; Two royal monuments in Stockholm, Johan Cederlund; King of the new republic: Houdon's equestrian monument to George Washington, David Bindman; Independence in the imperial realm: political iconography and urbanism in 18th-century Palermo, Alexander Grönert; Originals or replicas? Royal equestrian monuments in 18th-century Great Britain and Ireland, Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau; Royal monuments and civic ritual in 18th-century Dublin, Philip McEvansoneya; Bibliography; Index.