Artful armies, beautiful battles : art and warfare in early modern Europe
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Artful armies, beautiful battles : art and warfare in early modern Europe
（History of warfare, v. 9）
Brill, 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-248) and indexes
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Description
Warfare, and the circumstances surrounding it, have often provided important impulses for cultural production. This book explores the relationship between warfare and image-making in the early modern period. Rather than dealing with images simply as reproductions of actual events, the volume demonstrates complex processes by which political, national and social identities are negotiated and fashioned in warfare imagery.
The book analyses three main issues: the impact of war on art, the ways in which warfare imagery supports dominant ideologies, and the manner in which such imagery also constructs alternative identities. The essays offer a broad range of methodologies while dealing with a wide array of
chronological, geographical and artistic materials. Historians and art historians will find this volume particularly useful in its nuanced examination of the relationship between art and history.
Table of Contents
1. Military science, history, and art / Guy Wilson
2. Warfare and artistic production in the German lands during the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) / Sigrun Haude
3. Shining armor : Emperor Maximilian, chivalry, and war / Larry Silver
4. Images of warfare as political legitimization : Joerg Breu the Elder's rondels for Maximilian I's hunting lodge at Lermos (ca. 1516) / Pia F. Cuneo
5. Giorgio Vasari's and Niccolo Machiavelli's Medicean emblems of war and peace in the portrait of Duke Alessandro de Medici / Liana de Girolami Cheney
6. Seventeenth-century French images of warfare / Julie Anne Plax
7. Soldiers and gypsies : outsiders and their families in early sixteenth century German art / Andrew Morrall
8. Remembering Amalek and Nebuchadnezzar : biblical warfare and symbolic violence in two images in Italian Renaissance Yiddish books of customs / Diane Wolfthal
9. Battling fortune in sixteenth-century Italy : Cellini and the changing faces of Fortuna / Gwendolyn Trottein
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