City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts - Depictions of Rhetoric and Rule in the Sixteenth Century

Ryan E. Gregg relates how the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany both employed city view artists such as Anton van den Wyngaerde and Giovanni Stradano to aid in constructing authority.

About the author

Ryan E. Gregg, Ph.D. (2009, The Johns Hopkins University), is Associate Professor of Art History at Webster University. He has published multiple articles on city views, including "Further Insights into Anton van den Wyngaerde's Working Methods" (Master Drawings 51, 2013).

Product details

• Authors: Ryan E Gregg, Ryan E. Gregg
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2018
• EAN: 9789004357204
• ISBN: 978-90-04-35720-4
• No. of pages: 440
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 953 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918