List of Plates

List of Figures

Introduction: Visual Representations of the State as Propaganda and Legitimation

Allan Ellenius

The Baroque Stage

The Rhetoric of Images

PART I The Rhetoric of Images and the Spell of Metaphors

1. The Portrait of the Prince as a Rhetorical Genre by

Kurt Johannesson

1.1 To Teach and Persuade with Examples

1.2 The Instruction of Princes

1.3 Princely Portraits

1.4 Epilogue

2. From the exemplum virtutis to the Apotheosis. Hercules as an Identification Figure in Portraiture. An Example of the Adoption of Classical Forms of Representation

Friedrich Pollero(beta)

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Identification in Portraiture

2.3 Hercules after the Revolution

3. The Orb as the Symbol of the State in the Pictorial Cycle Depicting the Life of Maria de' Medici by Rubens

Matthias Winner

3.1 Consignment of the Regency

3.2 Coronation of Maria de' Medici

3.3 Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency

3.4 Council of the Gods

3.5 Felicity of the Regency

PART II Agents of Fame-Making

4. Monarchic Liturgies and the 'Hidden King': The Function and Meaning of Spanish Royal Portraiture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Fernando Checa Cremades

4.1 The Beginnings of an Image: From the World of Burgundy to the Defining Iconography of Maximilian I

4.2 Art, Architecture, and the Establishment of Power under Charles V: Limits and Symbols of Authority

4.3 The Purposes and Functions of Court Portraits

4.4 Philip II and the Ritual Concept of the Image

4.5 The `Realistic Portrait' and Images of the Kings and Queens of Spain, 1500-1800

4.6 The Hidden King and Funeral Images

4.7 The Extension and Transformation of Seventeenth-Century Art

5. Propaganda and Legitimation in Castile: Religion and Church 1250-1500

Jose Manuel Nieto Soria

5.1 Apparent Secularization

5.2 Ideology and Government

5.3 Resources of Propaganda and Legitimation

5.4 Popular and Courtly Devotion

5.5 A Christian King for a respublica christiana

PART III Medieval Legacy and Renaissance Imagery

6. Rex et sacerdos: The Holiness of the King in European Civilization by

Sergio Bertelli

6.1

6.2

6.3

6.4

6.5

7. Visual Images of Papal Power: The Legitimation of Papal Power in the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Gunnar Danbolt

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The SS Quattro Coronati Frescoes from 1246

7.3 From SS Quattro Coronati to the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican

7.4 The Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican

7.5 A New Political Situation for the Church

7.6 The Internal Political Situation

7.7 Significance and Presentation

7.8 Conclusion

8. Visual Ideas of Papal Authority: The Case of Bologna

Rudolph Preimesberger

PART IV Rituals and Ceremonies

9. Ceremonial Space

Juliusz Chroscicki

9.1 Terminology

9.2 Church

9.3 Residence

9.4 Town

9.5 Country

9.6 Routes in Four Areas of Ceremonial Space

9.7 The Iconography of the Modern State and Ceremonial Space

9.8 Conclusion

10. Beneath the Ceilings of Versailles: Towards an Archaeology and Anthropology of the Use of the King's 'Signs' during the Absolute Monarchy

Gerard Sabatier

10.1 The Functional Issue

10.2 Descriptive Approaches

PART V The Demise of Time-Honoured Mythologies

11. The Demise of Royal Mythologies

Peter Burke

11.1 The Crisis of Representation

11.2 The Decline of Correspondence

11.3 New Mythology

12. Republican Virtues and the Free State: Conceptual Frame and Meaning in Early Modern Europe and North America

Thomas Froschl

12.1

12.2

12.3

12.4

12.5

12.6

Bibliography

List of Contributors

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Index