Iconography, Propaganda, and Legitimation
Series: The Origins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th to 18th Centuries;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 November 1998
- ISBN 9780198205500
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages332 pages
- Size 242x161x24 mm
- Weight 676 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece, numerous halftones and line drawings 0
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Short description:
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.
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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. It is a study in the rhetoric of images as it developed from the late Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century.
Symbols and metaphors were created in order to represent the power of political systems and particularly to confirm the overall importance of rulership. The preferred ideas and visual images were those taken from classical mythology and the tradition of religious iconography. Among the most important concepts was that of the king's two bodies, one belonging to the terrestrial, the other to the symbolic sphere of life. A wealth of images was produced to fulfil the demands of `ceremonial space', which included state portraiture and allegorical imagery as well as coronations, funerals, royal entries, and other kinds of royal pageantry.
The Origins of the Modern State in Europe series arises from an important international research programme sponsored by the European Science Foundation. The aim of the series, which comprises seven volumes, is to bring together specialists from different countries, who reinterpret from a comparative European perspective different aspects of the formation of the state over the long period from the beginning of the thirteenth to the end of the eighteenth century. One of the main achievements of the research programme has been to overcome the long-established historiographical tendency to regard states mainly from the viewpoint of their twentieth-century borders.
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.
Table of Contents:
List of Plates, List of Figures
Introduction: Visual Representations of the State as Propaganda and Legitimation
The Portrait of the Prince as a Rhetorical Genre
From the exemplum virtutis to the Apotheosis
The Orb as the Symbol of the State in the Pictorial Cycle
Monarchic Liturgies and the `Hidden King'
Religion and Church during the Genesis of the Spanish Monarchy
Rex et sacerdos: The Holiness of the King in European Civilization
Visual Images of Papal Power
Visual Ideas of Papal Authority
Ceremonial Space
Beneath the Ceilings of Versailles
The Demise of Royal Mythologies
Republican Virtues and the Free State
Bibliography, List of Contributors, Illustration Sources, Index
