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Zusatztext 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Plates, List of Figures Introduction: Visual Representations of the State as Propaganda and Legitimation 1: The Portrait of the Prince as a Rhetorical Genre 2: From the exemplum virtutis to the Apotheosis 3: The Orb as the Symbol of the State in the Pictorial Cycle 4: Monarchic Liturgies and the `Hidden King' 5: Religion and Church during the Genesis of the Spanish Monarchy 6: Rex et sacerdos: The Holiness of the King in European Civilization 7: Visual Images of Papal Power 8: Visual Ideas of Papal Authority 9: Ceremonial Space 10: Beneath the Ceilings of Versailles 11: The Demise of Royal Mythologies 12: Republican Virtues and the Free State Bibliography, List of Contributors, Illustration Sources, Index
