| Description |
xix, 310 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Series |
The origins of the modern state in Europe ; theme G |
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Origins of the modern state in Europe ; theme G
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| Contents |
Introduction: Visual Representations of the State as Propaganda and Legitimation / Allan Ellenius -- 1. The Portrait of the Prince as a Rhetorical Genre / Kurt Johannesson -- 2. From the exemplum virtutis to the Apotheosis. Hercules as an Identification Figure in Portraiture. An Example of the Adoption of Classical Forms of Representation / Friedrich Polleross -- 3. The Orb as the Symbol of the State in the Pictorial Cycle Depicting the Life of Maria de' Medici by Rubens / Matthias Winner -- 4. Monarchic Liturgies and the 'Hidden King': The Function and Meaning of Spanish Royal Portraiture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Fernando Checa Cremades -- 5. Propaganda and Legitimation in Castile: Religion and Church 1250-1500 / Jose Manuel Nieto Soria -- 6. Rex et sacerdos: The Holiness of the King in European Civilization / Sergio Bertelli -- 7. Visual Images of Papal Power: The Legitimation of Papal Power in the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Centuries / Gunnar Danbolt |
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Introduction: Visual Representations of the State as Propaganda and Legitimation / Allan Ellenius -- 1. The Portrait of the Prince as a Rhetorical Genre / Kurt Johannesson -- 2. From the exemplum virtutis to the Apotheosis. Hercules as an Identification Figure in Portraiture. An Example of the Adoption of Classical Forms of Representation / Friedrich Polleross -- 3. The Orb as the Symbol of the State in the Pictorial Cycle Depicting the Life of Maria de' Medici by Rubens / Matthias Winner -- 4. Monarchic Liturgies and the 'Hidden King': The Function and Meaning of Spanish Royal Portraiture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Fernando Checa Cremades --5. Propaganda and Legitimation in Castile: Religion and Church 1250-1500 / Jose Manuel Nieto Soria -- 6. Rex et sacerdos: The Holiness of the King in European Civilization / Sergio Bertelli -- 7. Visual Images of Papal Power: The Legitimation of Papal Power in the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Centuries / Gunnar Danbolt |
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8. Visual Ideas of Papal Authority: The Case of Bologna / Rudolph Preimesberger -- 9. Ceremonial Space / Juliusz Chroscicki -- 10. Beneath the Ceilings of Versailles: Towards an Archaeology and Anthropology of the Use of the King's 'Signs' during the Absolute Monarchy / Gerard Sabatier -- 11. The Demise of Royal Mythologies / Peter Burke -- 12. Republican Virtues and the Free State: Conceptual Frame and Meaning in Early Modern Europe and North America / Thomas Froschl |
| Summary |
Representations of political power play an important role in Western art history from the late Middle Ages up to modern times. This volume by leading experts is a wide-ranging survey of significant trends in the development of political imagery. It is a study in the rhetoric of images as it developed from the late Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century |
| Notes |
"European Science Foundation." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-298) and index |
| Subject |
Art and state -- Europe.
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Metaphor in art.
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Politics in art.
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| Author |
Ellenius, Allan.
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European Science Foundation.
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| LC no. |
98007994 |
| ISBN |
0198205503 |
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