Resumen de The sculptures of Marly and the programme of Versailles: considerations of their relationship and meaning
Recently several important publications by François Souchal on the sculptors of Louis XIV have focused the attention of sculpture historians and the wider scholarly community on the garden sculpture of the age of French classicism. The appearance of the first two volumes of Souchal's three-volume dictionary of French sculptors active during the reign of Louis XIV, as well as his monograph on Nicolas and Guillaume Coustou, has made a large corpus of photographs and precise archival documentation on royal commissions in the gardens of Versailles and Marly readily available. His research has thus paved the way for new inquiries in a field where research was sporadic in the past.
