L'art du luxe: Claude-François Ménestrier et la rhétorique du feu d'artifice
Résumé
This article examines the theory and practice of fireworks in the work of C.-F. Ménestrier. In seventeenth-century Lyon, Ménestrier teamed with the best painters and engravers, namely T. Blanchet, with whom he created the splendid Réjouissances de la Paix (20 March 1660). This spectacle can be explained through a theoretical piece of writing (Advis nécessaire pour la conduite des feux d’artifice) showing that the element of fire plays a crucial role in public celebrations. Its presence in Christian celebrations is derived from the autodafés. Ménestrier also suggests that fireworks can lead to an innamoramento and can be used as an eloquent luminous language able to ignite the spark of love in the hearts of the viewers.
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