City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts : Depictions of Rhetoric and Rule in the Sixteenth Century.
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Natura: | eBook Elettronico |
Lingua: | English |
Imprint: | Boston : BRILL, 2018. |
Serie: | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser.
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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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Sommario:
- 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.