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43 For Philip II as Solomon and the Escorial as the temple of Jerusalem, see Juan Rafael de la
Cuadra Blanco, "King Philip of Spain as Solomon the Second: the Origins of Solomonism of the
Escorial in the Netherlands," in The Seventh Window: the King's Window Donated by Philip II
and Mary Tudor to Sint Janskerk in Gouda (1557), ed. Wim de Groot (Hilversum: Verloren,
2005), 169-80.
44 Other non-French rulers compared to King David include King Henry VIII and Emperor
Ferdinand II. For the association of French kings with David since the Carolingian period, see
Ernst Kantorowicz, Laudes Regiae: A Study in Liturgical Acclamations and Mediaeval Ruler
Worship (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1946), 56-58; Robert W. Scheller, "Ensigns
of Authority: French Royal Symbolism in the Age of Louis XII," Simiolus 13, no. 2 (1983): 119;
Robert W. Scheller, "Imperial Themes in Art and Literature of the Early French Renaissance:
The Period of Charles VIII," Semiolus 12, no. 1 (1981-1982): 58.
45 Kantorowicz, Laudes Regiae, 57.
46 Scheller, "Imperial Themes," 58. Baronnat published his treatise in 1491.
47 Nicolas Caussin, The holy court. Or the Christian institution of men of quality With examples
of those, who in court have flourished in sanctity, trans. Thomas Hawkins (Paris: English
College Press, 1626), 1, 100. This is the first of five volumes written by Caussin for Louis XIII.
48 For Louis IX’s similarities to Solomon, see Jacques Le Goff, Saint Louis (Paris: Gallimard,
1996), 392-96, 592-94; Daniel H. Weiss, "The Three Solomon Portraits in the Arsenal Old
Testament and the Construction of Meaning in Crusader Painting," Arte medievale 6, no. 2
(1992): 27. For Louis IX’s reputation for justice, see Margaret Wade Labarge, Saint Louis:
Louis IX, Most Christian King of France (Boston: Little, Brown, 1968), 169-78; Le Goff, Saint
Louis, 644-47.
49 For buildings associated with Louis IX, see Branner, Saint Louis.
50 Weiss, "Three Solomon," 27-30.
51 Ibid., 30. The section of glass is found in two window cycles at the west end of the south wall
in the upper chapel. Weiss makes his argument based on the two rose windows above the
lancets, one of which depicts a kneeling St. Louis while the other shows a kneeling Solomon.
52 Le Salomon de la France, ou Le rappart de nostre Roy à Salomon, en sa sagesse par la
Justice, et la Clemence, (Paris: Pierre Chevalier, 1617).
53 Ibid., 32.
54 For a discussion of the biographies, see Beaune, Ideology, 91-99.
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