Revolts and Political Violence in Early Modern Imagery.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (340 pages)
- Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History Series ; v.54 .
- Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Revolts and Political Violence in Early Modern Imagery -- Part 1 Visual Markers of Legitimacy -- Chapter 1 To Visualize or Not to Visualize: Commemorating the Suppression of Revolt in Early Qing China -- Chapter 2 Visualizing Punishment in Byzantium: Disseminating Memories of Quelled Revolts before the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- Chapter 3 Revolutionary Ceremonies and Visual Culture during the Neapolitan Revolt (1647-1648) -- Part 2 Confessional Conflict -- Chapter 4 From Power Brokers to Rebels: How Frans Hogenberg Depicted the Beginning of the Dutch Revolt -- Chapter 5 Strategies of Transnational Identification: Images of the 1655 Massacre of the Waldensians in the Dutch Press -- Chapter 6 Image and Text as Propaganda during the Upper Austrian Peasant War (1626) -- Part 3 Foreign Observation -- Chapter 7 The International Reputation and Self-Representation of Hungarian Noblemen in the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 8 Representing the King: The Images of Joćo IV of Portugal (1640-1652) -- Chapter 9 Marking Political Legitimacy in Early Modern Images of Russia -- Chapter 10 Through Glory and Death: Stepan Razin and the 1667-1671 Cossack Rebellion in Western Early Modern Visual Culture -- Part 4 Revolutionary Images -- Chapter 11 Concepts of Leadership in Early Portraits of American Revolutionaries -- Chapter 12 Satirical Rebels? Irritating Anticipations in European Visualizations of Black American Insurgents around 1800 -- Index.
The first in-depth analysis of how early modern people produced and consumed images of revolts and political violence, drawing on evidence from Russia, China, Hungary, Portugal, Germany, North America and other regions.