ISBN: 9798267215862
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 201

Court and Image: The Spanish Monarchy through Portraiture (Spanish version) is a rigorous and evocative exploration of portraiture as a political, symbolic, and diplomatic tool in seventeenth‑century Europe. Through documented episodes and visual analysis, the book reveals how the Spanish Monarchy projected its power, legitimacy, and dynastic alliances through the exchange of royal images between courts.

From miniatures sent during marriage negotiations to official portraits that crossed borders as gestures of reconciliation or dynastic affirmation, the study examines portraiture not merely as art, but as a language of state.

With particular attention to figures such as Velázquez, Rubens, and Van Dyck, it reconstructs a visual network that linked Madrid, Vienna, Paris, London, and Brussels — consolidating the image of a monarchy painted to govern.

Ideal for art historians, scholars of diplomacy, and readers passionate about courtly culture, Court and Image proposes that history is also portrayed, preserved, and transmitted.

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