Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Art and Design Theses Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Spring 6-17-2013 Between Worlds: The Biography of Madame de Pompadour's Boudoir Turc Dana C. Lee Georgia State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/art_design_theses Recommended Citation Lee, Dana C., "Between Worlds: The Biography of Madame de Pompadour's Boudoir Turc." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2013. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/126 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Art and Design Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. BETWEEN WORLDS: THE BIOGRAPHY OF MADAME DE POMPADOUR’S BOUDOIR TURC by DANA LEE Under the Direction of Maria Gindhart ABSTRACT Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, known as the Marquise de Pompadour, was celebrated for her great patronage of the arts, including architecture. This biographical account of her Turkish boudoir at Bellevue examines its implications of personal and private life, class and gender, and the role of exoticism in eighteenth-century architectural interiors. Analysis of the boudoir and its contents reflect much about its unusual mistress and the unique period of the mid- eighteenth century, as all are likened to the metaphor of existing in a liminal space “between worlds.”