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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

Gregg, Ryan E.

Hardcover

Art HistoryMedieval & Renaissance HistoryArchitecture History

ISBN10: 9004357203
ISBN13: 9789004357204
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 20 2018
Pages: 418
Weight: 2.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
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 view that shared affinity with Renaissance historiographic practice in its use of optical evidence and rhetorical techniques. History has tended to see city views as accurate recordings of built environments. Bringing together ancient and Renaissance texts, archival material, and fieldwork in the depicted locations, Gregg demonstrates that a close-knit school of city view artists instead manipulated settings to help persuade audiences of the truthfulness of their patrons' official narratives.

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