City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts : Depictions of Rhetoric and Rule in the Sixteenth Century.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Witnessing Sovereignty: Anton van den Wyngaerde's City Views as Habsburg Courtly Propaganda -- 1 The Archival Material: Their Evidentiary Problems and Indications -- 2 Eyewitness to History: The Habsburg Use of City Views -- 3 Genoa: City View as History and as Impresa -- 4 Cantecroy, Mechelen, and the English Palaces: Claims of Dominion -- 5 Brussels and Utrecht: Demonstrations of Sovereignty -- 6 The Italian Views: Van den Wyngaerde in the Imperial Train -- 7 Ancona and Lyon -- 8 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The Antwerp School of City Views -- 1 Fertile Foundations -- 2 The Catalyst: Charles V's Entry into Rome -- 3 Technique, Style, and Viewing Experiences -- 4 Coalition -- 5 Contemporary Recognition -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Vasari, Historiography, and the Rhetoric of City Views -- 1 History, Truthfulness, and Setting -- 2 The Tropes of Enargeia: Sieges, Ships, and City Views -- 3 Viewing City Towers: Vision, Cognition, and Simulacra -- 4 Nature or Artifice? The Mannerism of Antwerp School City Views -- 5 City Views as Analogy for Judgment -- 6 Enargeia and Eyewitnessing in Vasari's Historiographic Practice -- 7 Vasari's Description of City View Methodology: a Verbal Artist Figure -- 8 Borghini's New Historiography and the City Views -- 9 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Defining Ducal Dominion: Giovanni Stradano's City Views in the Apartment of Leo X -- 1 The Room of Giovanni delle Bande Nere -- 2 The Room of Clement VII -- 3 The Room of Cosimo I -- 4 Conclusion -- Coda: Heirs to Dominion -- 1 Heirs to Patronage -- Bibliography -- Index.

Ryan E. Gregg relates how the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany both employed city view artists such as Anton van den Wyngaerde and Giovanni Stradano to aid in constructing authority.

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