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Robert de Villeneuve and the representation of Quebec City at the end of the seventeenth century

Author
Grignon, Marc
Document type
Article (acte de congrès)
Language
English
Conference title
Circa 1700 : architecture in Europe and the Americas
Author (monograph)
Millon, Henry A. (Editor, Author of introductory parts, Collective Author); Cropper, Elizabeth (Author of preface, Collective Author)
Source
Circa 1700 : architecture in Europe and the Americas. 2005, 186-205, 21 ill., plans, maps
Publisher
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (usa)
Publication country
United States
Abstract (en)
Proffers that images of Quebec City during the French colonial period (1608-1759) reveal a primarily ostentive function (e.g., representations were designed to provide identifiable representations of buildings and streets for absent viewers). Analyzes Robert de Villeneuve's first plan of the city (1685), which, along with other forms of correspondence, was used as documentation by envoys of Louis XIV. Observes that the highly detailed survey is typical in its hierarchical character, but exceptional in its rhetorical aspects. (For example, his illustration of the Récollet Monastery outside town rather than hospice in the Upper Town reveals his sympathies with the friars in an ongoing religious conflict).
Subject (en)
Subject (fr)
Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20060701-00024886

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