Incendiary Art: The Representation of Fireworks in Early Modern Europe by Kevin Salatino
4to. pp. 109. profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. bibliography. paperback (fine condition). [Los Angeles]: The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and Humanities, [1997].
From the Bibliographies & Dossiers series.The Collections of the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, 3.
ISBN-10: 0892364173 / ISBN-13: 9780892364176
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Festivities such as those exalting the court of Louis XIV, the celebration of James II's London coronation, and the commemoration of the peace celebrations of 1749 at The Hague culminated in dazzling pyrotechnical displays. These were in turn reproduced as prints, paintings, and narrative descriptions. This unique book examines the propagandistic and rhetorical functions these printed records came to serve as vehicles of aesthetic, cultural, and emotional significance.