Artful armies, beautiful battles : art and warfare in early modern Europe / edited by Pia Cuneo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cuneo, Pia F.

Series:

History of warfare 0928-0731 ; v. 9.

History of warfare, 0928-0731 ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and war.

War in art.

Art, European--16th century.

Art, European.

Art, European--17th century.

Physical Description:

xii, 266 pages 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.

Contents:

Military science, history, and art / Gay Wilson

Warfare and artistic production in the German lands during the Thirty Years War (1618-48) / Sigrun Haude

Shining armor : Emperor Maximilian, chivalry, and war / Larry Silver

Images of warfare as political legitimization : Jörg Breu the Elder's rondels for Maximilian I's hunting lodge at Lermos (ca. 1516) / Pia F. Cuneo

Giogio Vasari's and Niccolò Machiavelli's Medicean emblams of war and peace in the portrait of Duke Alessandro de Medici / Liana de Girolami Cheney

Seventeenth-century French images of warfare / Julie Anne Plax

Soldiers and gypsies : outsiders and their families in early sixteenth century German art / R. Andrew Morrall

Remembering Amalek and Nebuchadnezzar : biblical warfare and symbolic violence in two images in Italian Renaissance Yiddish books of customs / Diane Wolfthal

Battling fortune in sixteenth-century Italy : Cellini and the changing faces of Fortuna / Gwendolyn Trottein.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-248) and indexes.

ISBN:

9004115889

OCLC:

47803673