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

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

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Author / Creator: Gregg, Ryan E.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Boston : BRILL, 2018.
Series:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser.
Subjects:
Cities and towns, Renaissance, in art.
Authority in art.
Charles-V,-Holy Roman Emperor,-1500-1558-Art patronage.
Cosimo-I,-Grand-Duke of Tuscany,-1519-1574-Art patronage.
Art, Renaissance-Themes, motives.
Electronic books.
Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Witnessing Sovereignty: Anton van den Wyngaerde's City Views as Habsburg Courtly Propaganda
  • 1 The Archival Material: Their Evidentiary Problems and Indications
  • 2 Eyewitness to History: The Habsburg Use of City Views
  • 3 Genoa: City View as History and as Impresa
  • 4 Cantecroy, Mechelen, and the English Palaces: Claims of Dominion
  • 5 Brussels and Utrecht: Demonstrations of Sovereignty
  • 6 The Italian Views: Van den Wyngaerde in the Imperial Train
  • 7 Ancona and Lyon
  • 8 Conclusion
  • Chapter 2 The Antwerp School of City Views
  • 1 Fertile Foundations
  • 2 The Catalyst: Charles V's Entry into Rome
  • 3 Technique, Style, and Viewing Experiences
  • 4 Coalition
  • 5 Contemporary Recognition
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 Vasari, Historiography, and the Rhetoric of City Views
  • 1 History, Truthfulness, and Setting
  • 2 The Tropes of Enargeia: Sieges, Ships, and City Views
  • 3 Viewing City Towers: Vision, Cognition, and Simulacra
  • 4 Nature or Artifice? The Mannerism of Antwerp School City Views
  • 5 City Views as Analogy for Judgment
  • 6 Enargeia and Eyewitnessing in Vasari's Historiographic Practice
  • 7 Vasari's Description of City View Methodology: a Verbal Artist Figure
  • 8 Borghini's New Historiography and the City Views
  • 9 Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 Defining Ducal Dominion: Giovanni Stradano's City Views in the Apartment of Leo X
  • 1 The Room of Giovanni delle Bande Nere
  • 2 The Room of Clement VII
  • 3 The Room of Cosimo I
  • 4 Conclusion
  • Coda: Heirs to Dominion
  • 1 Heirs to Patronage
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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