We are pretty lucky in that this period has been well documented pictorially - Louis XIV made sure his victories were immortalised - but how much can be gleaned from these pictures? My idea is to do a series of close-ups of the figures in the background - they are often shadowed in the gloom but they certainly give a flavour of the time. This one is a close-up of part of the siege of Besancon in 1674 by Van der Meulen.
Friday 27 June 2008
Figures in the background (1674)
We are pretty lucky in that this period has been well documented pictorially - Louis XIV made sure his victories were immortalised - but how much can be gleaned from these pictures? My idea is to do a series of close-ups of the figures in the background - they are often shadowed in the gloom but they certainly give a flavour of the time. This one is a close-up of part of the siege of Besancon in 1674 by Van der Meulen.
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