Iconography, Propaganda, and Legitimation

by Allan Ellenius (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198205500
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/28/1999
Series:	The ^AOrigins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th to 18th Centuries
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

University of Uppsala

Table of Contents

List of Plates, List of FiguresIntroduction: Visual Representations of the State as Propaganda and Legitimation1. The Portrait of the Prince as a Rhetorical Genre2. From the exemplum virtutis to the Apotheosis3. The Orb as the Symbol of the State in the Pictorial Cycle4. Monarchic Liturgies and the ‘Hidden King'5. Religion and Church during the Genesis of the Spanish Monarchy6. Rex et sacerdos: The Holiness of the King in European Civilization7. Visual Images of Papal Power8. Visual Ideas of Papal Authority9. Ceremonial Space10. Beneath the Ceilings of Versailles11. The Demise of Royal Mythologies12. Republican Virtues and the Free StateBibliography, List of Contributors, Illustration Sources, Index

Editorial Reviews

"If I were asked to nominate the best interdisciplinary collections of essays in the last century, Iconography, Propaganda, and Legitimation would be near the top of my list."—Sixteenth Century Journal

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