LOUIS XIV, KING OF ARTS

  • Priscilla Pizzato
  • Documentary
  • 2015
  • 1h27

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the death of Louis XIV, Louis XIV, King of Arts examines his relationship with art and the great artists of his time. It shows how the Sun King used all the arts to serve his glory and all his power to serve the arts, thereby influencing the aesthetics of his age. It paints an intimate as well as a political portrait, that of the sovereign and that of the passionate amateur, of the King and the man.

Production
  • Ex Nihilo
  • Muriel Meynard
Coproduction
  • ARTE France

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