Making memories for a mad King: illustrating the "Dialogues" of Pierre Salmon

• Autores: Anne D. Hedeman
• Localización: Gesta, ISSN 0016-920X, Vol. 48, Nº. 2, 2009 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Making thoughts, making pictures, making memories: a special issue in honor of Mary J. Carruthers), págs. 169-184
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article reexamines the visual cycle found in Pierre Salmon's Dialogues (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 23279) and its role as a memory aid for both its putative audience, the mentally ill King Charles VI of France, and its actual audience, the expanded group of relatives and advisers who in fact governed France in the early fifteenth century. It suggests that Salmon selected and guided skilled illuminators working in the Mazarine and Cité des Dames styles to create a series of emotionally charged images with a single goal: to create powerful mental pictures that would structure the Dialogues and shape its reception at court to make manifest his loyalty, and the loyalty of others, to the king.