The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France Astronomy Astrology The three handles of a

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She has published numerous articles on Dutch painting and is a founding member and past president of the Historians of Netherlandish Art

This book documents all phases of Szeemann’s career

The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France Astronomy Astrology The three handles of aMeredith Martin and Gillian Weiss This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV. Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of Frances King Louis XIV (r. 16431715). Yet most studies of French art in this period focus on