The Fountain of Latona : : Louis XIV, Charles Le Brun, and the Gardens of Versailles / / Thomas F. Hedin.

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• VerfasserIn: Hedin, Thomas F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
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Ovid tells the story of Latona, the mother by Jupiter of Apollo and Diana. In her flight from the jealous Juno, she arrives faint and parched on the coast of Asia Minor. Kneeling to sip from a pond, Latona is met by the local peasants, who not only deny her effort but muddy the water in pure malice....

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Measurements
• List of Illustrations
• Prologue
• Chapter 1. Foundations
• Chapter 2. Fountains in Context
• Chapter 3. Original State
• Chapter 4. Visual Narrative
• Chapter 5. Latona Group
• Chapter 6. Lycean Peasants
• Chapter 7. Panegyric and Manifesto
• Epilogue
• Appendix A. Execution of the Fountain
• Appendix B. Mansart’s Marble Cone
• Appendix C. Marsy’s Lecture of 7 December 1669
• Appendix D. Nathan Whitman’s “Fronde Thesis”
• Appendix E. Translations of Ovid
• Appendix F. Elaborations of the Western Axis, Briefly
• List of Abbreviations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index