Versailles: Baroque Propaganda for Absolutism
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Louis XIV weaponized Baroque art to build absolute power. After decades of religious wars tore
France apart, the Bourbon kings needed more than military strength to reunify the nation.
They turned culture itself into a political instrument. Music, theatre,
and architecture at Versailles were not mere decoration. They were calculated propaganda for a
monarchy claiming divine right to rule. Every opera performance, every garden fountain, every court ballet
reinforced the same message: the king is the center of all order.
Louis founded royal academies to control who could produce opera and sacred music,
ensuring only state approved visions reached the public. His ministers choreographed daily life at
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