The Versailles Effect: Objects, Lives, and Afterlives of the Domain

Mark Ledbury is Power Professor of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Sydney. Professor Ledbury took his degrees at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sussex, and his first academic post was as lecturer in Cultural History at the University of Portsmouth. He then moved to the University of Manchester where he was lecturer in Art History, until he joined the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts, in 2003. As Director of the Power Institute, Professor Ledbury ensures that the Power furthers its research and public engagement mission through talks, conferences and the support of research and publications. His has published two single-author monographs, three edited books, and authored numerous scholarly journal articles and book chapters.

Robert Wellington is Senior Lecturer at Australian National University. He is an art historian with a special interest in the role of material culture in history making and cross-cultural exchange at the Court of Louis XIV. Prior to receiving a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Sydney, he has ten years’ experience in various roles in the contemporary arts sector. He is the Book Placement Editor for Early Modern Art History Studies (1500-1800) for H-France, and on the advisory panel to the Bloomsbury Academic book series, The Material Culture of Art and Design. His monograph, Antiquarianism and the visual histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a future past, was published in 2015.