Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 104. (Budapest, 2006)

MIRIAM SZÖCS: Baroque Revival: Nineteenth-Century Small Bronzes ol Louis XIV

I LOUIS XIV ON HORSEBACK. BUDAPEST, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS the leadership of cities to the undertaking. There was a well-defined order to the installation of the statues: the plans always had to be approved by the chief architect of the royal court, Jules-Hardouin Mansart (1646-1708). Since they most often derived from him, these equestrian statues presented a rather uniform picture: the balanced, calm deportment of the king's horse w

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as borrowed from the Roman statue of Marcus Aurelius, while Louis XIV appeared in a contemporary wig but the attire of ancient emperors. Small differences derived from the king's hand position or minor deviations in the steps of the horse.

3 The equestrian monuments of Louis XIV were destroyed in the French Revolution without exception; hence, w

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e can only study the one-time public sculptures through the contemporaneous accounts, prints and surviving models. At the same time, numerous small bronzes of