INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ROYAL MONUMENTS AND URBAN PUBLIC SPACE IN 18th- CENTURY EUROPE
8 - 9 March 2002
Lecture Theatre, Leeds City Art Gallery
& Henry Moore Institute

This conference attempts, for the first time, to synthesise new
approaches to royal monuments by subjecting them to a Europe-wide
survey. The two days will be organised in four sessions:
Representation and Reception
Objects - Environments
The Politics of the Royal Monument: Patronage and Identity
L'Europe française au dix-huitième siècle'?

Speakers and topics:

* Christoph Frank (Forschungszentrum Europaïsche Aufklarung Postdam,
Germany)
"Que cent flatteurs gagaz travaillent à ta Gloire": The monuments of
Louis XIV of France and the Great Elector Frederick William of
Brandenburg in the light of contemporary pamphletary response

* Sophie Descat (Centre Ledoux, Paris I-Panthéon- Sorbonne, France) /
Eric Monin (Ecole d'architecture de Nantes, France)
Did function outweigh aesthetics? Re-reading the Monuments érigés en
France à la gloire de Louis XV by Pierre Patte (1765): new
conceptions of the place royale in eighteenth-century Paris

* John Moore (Smith College, Northampton, Mass., USA)
Ephemeral Royal Monuments and International Diplomacy in Eighteenth-
Century Rome

* Valerie Mainz (University of Leeds)
Royal effigies, urban displays and municipal ceremonies in mid
eighteenth-century France

* Andreas Koestler (Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, Bochum, Germany)
Allegory in crisis: Pigalle's monument to Louis XV and its reception

* Etienne Jollet (Université François Rabelais, Tours, France)
The celebration and its limits : the pedestal and the royal monument
in 18th- century France

* Godehard Janzing (Centre Allemand d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris,
France)
Levez vous, Citoyens- Military reforms and the fate of the pedestal
slaves in 18th-century France and Prussia

* Nuno Saldanha (Casa-Museu dos Patudos, Alpiarça Portugal)
The Palace, the Market and the Black Horse -The Equestrian statue of
King José I in Lisbon

* Yoann Brault (Centre Ledoux, Paris I- Panthéon- Sorbonne, France)
Une iconologie sacrifiée: les portes triomphales de Paris et leurs
sculptures (1670-1676)

* Alexander Groenert (University of Tuebingen, Germany / Bib.
Hertziana, Rome, Italy)
Independence in the Realm of the Kaiser - Political Iconography and
Urbanism in 18th Century Palermo

* Pascal Lievaux (Université François Rabelais, Tours, France)
The King and the Cities : Town Halls and Royal Propaganda in
Eighteenth-century France

* Dominique Massounie (Centre Ledoux, Paris I-Panthéon- Sorbonne,
France)
The Royal Fountain: A Desanctified Effigy of the Monarch

* Philip McEvansoneya (Trinity College, Dublin)
Royal monuments, civic ritual and Protestant nationalism in late
eighteenth-century Dublin

* Charles Avery (Historian of Sculpture and Independent Fine Art
Consultant)
'Carolus Magnus'- Hubert Le Sueur's equestrian monument to King
Charles I (1633)

* Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau (Henry Moore Institute Research Fellow)
The Royal Monuments and their Patrons in Georgian Great Britain

* Daniel Rabreau (Centre Ledoux, Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
Les statues de Louis XV: le caractère du souverain illustré sur la
place publique

* Basile Baudez (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France)
The Monument to Peter the Great by Falconet: a 'Place Royale' by the
river Neva?

* Renata Tyszczuk (University of Cambridge)
C'est plus qu'un Roi! Stanislas Leszczynski's Place Royale, Nancy,
1752-1755

* Johan Cederlund (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden)
Pierre Hubert L'Archevêque and his Royal Monuments in Stockholm

* David Bindman (University College London)
King of the Republic : Houdon's equestrian monument to George
Washington

Conference fees are £40 full, £15 student rate, inclusive of all
refreshments.
Chaired by Malcolm Baker (V&A), Nigel Llewellyn (University of
Sussex), Alison Yarrington (University of Leicester).
Organised by Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau (HMI Research Fellow)

Contact information:
Liz Aston
Henry Moore Institute
74 The Headrow
Leeds LS1 3AH
England
Tel +44 (0)113 246 7467/9469
Fax +44 (0)113 246 1481
Email: events@henry-moore.ac.uk