Reading the Royal Monument in Eighteenth-Century Europe

The project started with an international conference in Leeds, Britain in 2002 where art historians and related scholars from Continental Europe, North America, and Britain surveyed 18th-century royal moments across Europe. For publication, the focus narrowed to sculpted monuments that had actually been erected, rather than mere inscriptions or pipe dreams. The 10 essays discuss such examples as multiple figures in French royal monuments of the modern era, the king's birthday as an insight into the history of royal monuments in Portugal at the end of the Ancien Regime, two royal monuments in Stockholm, and royal monuments and civic ritual in 18th-century Dublin. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau received a PhD from the Universite Paris I --- Pantheon-Sorbonne on `Royal monuments and public space in Great Britain and Ireland, 1714-1820'. She has mainly written on eighteenth-century British and French monumental sculpture 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.