HIST-099 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Arc De Triomphe, Louis Xi Of France, Socalled
24 Jan 2017
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The government interferes in the arts / does not fund them much but the arts can tell us a lot about the government. The king and the emperor whoever was of supreme authority in a city and whoever was with him had the right to enter on a white horse. The pope would ride in on a donkey to avoid ruffling feathers. Emperor has a closed crown; king is the only one who can have an open crown. Tries to give messages to people who are mostly illiterate/barely literate so the visual imagery is especially valuable. I(cid:373)ages (cid:449)e(cid:396)e(cid:374)"t (cid:272)i(cid:396)(cid:272)ulated (cid:373)u(cid:272)h i(cid:374) the 16th century or so because the king would travel around. The images of the king got portrayed the first time the king or the queen entered the city, they would have an opening ceremony and have an arc de triumph (collapsible, not like the one in.
