Papers by Meredith Martin
Visitors to Versailles: From Louis XIV to the French Revolution/Visiteurs de Versailles: Voyageurs, Princes, Ambassadeurs, 1682-1789, ed. Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide and Bertrand Rondot (exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Château de Versailles), 2018
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The Versailles Effect: Objects, Lives, and Afterlives of the Domain, ed. Mark Ledbury and Robert Wellington (Bloomsbury), 2020
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Early Modern Court Culture, ed. Erin Griffey (London and New York: Routledge), 2021
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Exotic Switzerland? Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment/Une Suisse exotique? Regarder l’ailleurs en Suisse au siècle des Lumières, ed. N. Etienne et al. (Diaphanes/The University of Chicago Press), 2020
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Reimagining the Ballet des Porcelaines: A Tale of Magic, Desire, and Exotic Entanglement, 2022
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Artforum, 2020
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Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2012
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The Mobility of People and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Art of Travel, ed. Elisabeth A. Fraser, 2019
This chapter tells the story of two guns: one cast in Toulon by Jean Baubé in 1680, the other su... more This chapter tells the story of two guns: one cast in Toulon by Jean Baubé in 1680, the other supposedly fired at Algiers in 1683. Both made of bronze to launch massive cannon balls, these weapons are linked by more than material and functional similarities. They are symbols of Mediterranean servitude and the ways it has been celebrated or concealed since the seventeenth century. During the 1680s, about two thousand esclaves turcs (enslaved Turks) labored for Louis XIV, and the chained head of one of them decorates the knob of Baubé’s gun. Such a cannon belonged on a first-line war- ship, the sort that France sent to bomb Algiers in this decade. Countering one of these assaults, the Algerian navy used a different gun, nicknamed “Baba Merzoug” (Lucky Father), to execute French consul Jean Le Vacher. Seized as war booty during France’s 1830 invasion of Algiers, it is now displayed near Baubé’s cannon at the naval port of Brest, despite Algerian demands for its repatriation. By considering the production and circulation of these two guns, this chapter reexamines slavery in the Mediterranean not only as a mode of Louis XIV–era representation but also as a theme of colonial and postcolonial commemoration.
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Beyond Chinoiserie: Artistic Exchange between China and the West During the Late Qing Dynasty, ed. Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Jennifer Milam, 2018
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Artforum, Summer 2008
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Cabinet, v. 40, Winter 2010/11
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L'Esprit Créateur, v. 53, n. 4 (special issue on The Turk of Early Modern France), Winter 2013
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Artforum, March 2011
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Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors, ed. Meredith Martin and Denise Baxter (Ashgate, 2010)
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SVEC, 2012
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