Consolidation de l’État à l’époque baroque par le truchement de la peinture : France et Pays-Bas septentrionaux

During the seventeenth century there was a growing appropriation of the arts in support of the state: the state increasingly defined itself as a supra-individual, capable of strengthening identity and national ties. By focusing on several examples from the field of painting, we intend to show how in the Baroque period – unlike the Renaissance – this reason of state became one of the aims of art in the service of all governmental power: regardless of political orientations – absolutist and republican – the nation-state of the modern era used the arts to increase social cohesion in the military,... Mehr ...