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Festival and Violence
Margaret M. McGowan
其他書名
Princely Entries in the Context of War, 1480-1635
出版
Brepols Publishers
, 2019
主題
Art / History / General
History / Europe / Renaissance
History / Civilization
Performing Arts / General
Social Science / Holidays (non-religious)
Social Science / Violence in Society
ISBN
2503583334
9782503583334
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nmxTyAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
European Renaissance Festivals are noted for their extravagance, for their inherited classical culture, and as evidence of how court and civic spectacles could express political, religious, social and economic aspirations. In this new monograph, the accent is firmly on the violent context of Magnificence: it examines how war affected the minds and practice of both artists and princes, and shows how victims and their suffering were as prominent in festival as were conquerors and their projections of victory. What emerges here is the dark side represented in princely entries where imperial ambitions are built upon civic devastation and where myths elaborate and expose their ambiguous nature and message. Artists and poets collaborated in bringing victory and violence together: Mantegna and Durer in triumphal processions; Frans Floris and Rubens on the canvases they created for triumphal arches where mythology was put to work to arouse excitement for deeds of heroism and death, while engravers depicted scenes of war and destruction to accommodate contemporary taste.