Iconography, Propaganda, and Legitimation [Hardcover]

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.

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 theexemplum virtutisto 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

If I were asked to nominate the best interdisciplinary collections of essays in the last century,Iconography, Propaganda, and Legitimationwould be near the top of my list. --Sixteenth Century Journal