Gregg, Ryan E.. City views in the Habsburg and Medici courts : depictions of rhetoric and rule in the sixteenth century

Folger bibliographic ID: 357946
Folger holdings ID: 506177

"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"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-406) and index

Contents

Witnessing sovereignty: Anton van den Wyngaerde's city views as Habsburg courtly propaganda -- The Antwerp school of city views -- Vasari, historiography, and the rhetoric of city views -- Defining ducal dominion: Giovanni Stradano's city views in the apartment of Leo X -- Coda: Heirs to dominion

Extended title: City views in the Habsburg and Medici courts : depictions of rhetoric and rule in the sixteenth century / by Ryan E. Gregg

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558 Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574 Wyngaerde, Anton van den, -1571 Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605 Cities and towns, Renaissance, in art Authority in art Art, Renaissance Art patronage

author: Gregg, Ryan E., 1980-
subject: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558
subject: Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574
subject: Wyngaerde, Anton van den, -1571
subject: Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605