There is nothing that indicates more clearly the magnificence of great princes than their superb palaces and their precious furniture.
To commit lèse-majesté was, and in some places still is, to commit an offense against the dignity of the crown….. The basic idea was that under a monarch, and especially an absolute monarch, the integrity of the state rested on the stature of the king (or queen or equivalent figure). To insult or denigrate or even question the monarch was to undermine the state itself. In the absolutist states of medieval and early modern Europe, lèse-majesté was a high crime, punishable by death.
Rick Wester Fine Art is excited to present architectural and editorial photographer David Leventi’s long awaited exhibition of photographs of rarely viewed personal sleeping quarters of kings, queens and titled rulers, Perchance to Dream: Royal and Noble Bedchambers.