Description |
xvi, 298 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) |
Contents |
The Paradox of the Ducal Monarchy: The Este Exile -- Francesco d'Este's Statecraft and Dynastic Refoundation -- 1. The Urban Arena -- 2. The Duke and His Theater -- 3. Palace, Status, and Dynastic Refoundation -- 4. Portraits: Working Images of the Prince -- 5. Instrumenta Regni: From the Provinces to Rome and Paris |
Summary |
"This book probes the role of culture in statecraft by examining how seventeenth-century rulers pressed art and architecture into political service. Alice Jarrard focuses on the ambitious Italian patron Duke Francesco d'Este of Modena, who deployed artworks strategically for his exiled family. The duke drew from vital Italian court traditions for his festival practices, imported opera theater designs from Venice, and called on famed Roman artists, including Girolamo Rainaldi, Francesco Borromini, Pietro da Cortona, and Gianlorenzo Bernini, to create palaces and portraits. His spectacular image informed Este projects in Rome and, through his designer Vigarani, who was summoned to Paris to build a theater, shaped the early cultural practice of Louis XIV. Demonstrating how performance brought paintings, sculptures, and buildings to life by dissolving the boundaries between distant courts, Jarrard reveals the dynamic role of art in seventeenth-century political discourse."--BOOK JACKET |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio, 1610-1658 -- Art patronage.
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Francesco, Duke of Modena and Reggio I d'Este, 1610-1658 -- Art patronage
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Architecture -- Italy -- Modena -- History -- 17th century.
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Architecture -- Italy -- Modena -- 17th century.
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Architecture and state -- Italy.
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Architecture and state -- Europe.
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LC no. |
2002035068 |
ISBN |
0521815096 |
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