Editing An Elephant Merry-go-Round

==Overview and Issue==
* 'What a painter tells us about the times of 'Queen's Play' and 'Checkmate'.'
* [[WG154]]

==Abstract==
* The author discusses Antoine Caron's paintings as they relate to the political happenings in France during the reigns of Henri II, Catherine de Medici and their successors. Noted are are Henri's and Catherine's fascination with the great exhibitions of the Roman Empire (needed to manifest their authority) and the conflicts caused by the Catholic and Protestant factions at court and in the country of France at large.

==Author==
* [[Martine Däuwel]]

==Dunnett Book Citations==
* [[QP 1.3]]

==Historical People==
* [[Antoine Caron]], 1521=-1599<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine Caron</ref>

==Illustrations==
* 'The Elephant Merry-go-round', Antoine Caron, 1520-99. Copyright: Bridgeman Images
* 'The Massacres of the Triumvirate', Antoine Caron, 1566. Copyright: Photo Josse/Bridgeman Images
* 'The Education of the Young King', designed 1562-65, attributed to Antoine Caron. Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art 
* 'The Lion of Barbarossa', Antoine Caron, 1562. Image: Wikimedia Commons
* 'The Prince's Dialogue with Death', Antoine Caron, 1540s. Image: www.dorotheum.com


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