As danças de corte francesa de Francisco I a Luís XIV : história e imagem

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the importance of dance and its various roles represented at the French court of Francis I’s to Louis XIV’s reign. During the work we tried to contextualize the France of that time focusing on religious and cultural important aspects; characterizing the dances of greater notoriety present in the French court of Francis I to Louis XIV, detailing the steps of these dances and how they were executed; examining treaties French dance highlighting the Italian influence in the court dance of that time and analyzing paintings and images of dance treatise and their intentions at the French court of the period studied. The technological progress of the Internet enabled a historical research about the French court dance of Francis I to Louis XIV’s reign, whose sources of interest are not available in Brazil. Accessing to the website of the National Library of France (Gallica), were found manuscripts, memoirs, books, dance treatises and images produced in the period that served as the primary sources for the study. We organize this work in three chapters, the first focused on the study of France in general aspects during the period of Francis I to Louis XIV approaching the Protestant threat, the Italian influence at the French court, as well as their development and the importance of clothing and adornments to the courtier of the new court. In the second chapter, we analyze the Italian influence and his maîtres de danse at the French court, approaching, in sequence, dances, ballets and maîtres danse in the French court beyond the Académie Royale de Danse. Our last chapter is dedicated to the important discovery of perspective, the power represented through dance images and dance representation of court balls and maîtres de danse treatises.