Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century - Performing Splendour in Catholic and Protestant Contexts

This volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe.

About the author

Gijs Versteegen, Ph.D., is lecturer in early modern history at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid). He researched court philosophy and the reception of court culture in enlightened and liberal historiography, publishing the monograph Corte y Estado en la historiografía liberal: un cambio de paradigma (Madrid: 2015).

Stijn Bussels. Ph.D. (2005, Ghent University) is Professor of Art History at the Leiden University. He has published widely on the intersections between the visual arts, theatre and spectacle in the early modern Low Countries. He is the author of The Antwerp Entry of Prince Philip in 1549. Rhetoric, Performance and Power (Rodopi 2012).

Walter S. Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University. He has published widely on early modern image cultures, on the art and art theory of the Low Countries, on scriptural image-making, on emblems and emblematics, and on Jesuit image theory.

Product details

• Assisted by: Stijn Bussels (Editor), Walter Melion (Editor), Gijs Versteegen (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2020
• EAN: 9789004432642
• ISBN: 978-90-04-43264-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Weight: 860 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history