Empress Eugénie and the arts
Subtitle: politics and visual culture in the nineteenth century
By: Alison McQueen
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781409405856
Subjects: Politics and culture; History; Portraits; Cultural policy; Influence; Art patronage
Other titles: Politics and visual culture in the nineteenth century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-334) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Shaping a nation-state : the politics of piety, charity and education; title: Imperial identities: the 'ornament of the throne'; title: Collecting an imperial persona : collecting practices and intimate spaces; title: International diplomacy and transnationalism; title: Family, memory and dynastic nostalgia; title: Epilogue.