City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts : : Depictions of Rhetoric and Rule in the Sixteenth Century / / Ryan E. Gregg.

In City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts , Ryan E. Gregg relates how Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany employed city view artists such as Anton van den Wyngaerde and Giovanni Stradano to aid in constructing authority. These artists produced a specific style of city v...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 294. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; 35
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden,, Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 294.
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 35.
Physical Description:1 online resource (440 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Witnessing Sovereignty: Anton van den Wyngaerde's City Views as Habsburg Courtly Propaganda
  • The Antwerp School of City Views
  • Vasari, Historiography, and the Rhetoric of City Views
  • Defining Ducal Dominion: Giovanni Stradano's City Views in the Apartment of Leo X
  • Coda: Heirs to Dominion
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.