The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution
eBook - ePub

The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution

  1. 204 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution

About this book

This is an analysis of the diverse facets of Alexander the Great's image from the Renaissance era through the Baroque into the nineteenth century.

Perceived as the first sovereign ruler of the world, for centuries Alexander became an exemplar for the most ambitious kings and emperors. This cultural phenomenon flourished above all in the Renaissance while extending into the nineteenth century. Early modern monarchs' identification with Alexander associated them with ideas of kingly wisdom. Yet this admiration waned on occasions. Napoleon was Alexander of Macedonia's most ardent critic. During the nineteenth century, the Macedonian hero was viewed as an individual who won control of the Achaemenid empire, but also underwent a progressive moral decline that converted him into a tyrant.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history and iconography.

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Yes, you can access The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution by Víctor Mínguez,Inmaculada Rodríguez-Moya in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & European Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032546643
eBook ISBN
9781003806776
Topic
Art
Subtopic
European Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. 1 Literary Preface: “Like Alexander”
  10. 2 Imitatio Alexandri: The sovereign of the world
  11. 3 Alexander and Fame: The best of nine
  12. 4 Alexander and Destiny: Alexandrian emblems for humanist princes
  13. 5 Alexander the Conqueror: Issus, West against East
  14. 6 Alexander, King of Asia: “Virtue is worthy of the empire of the world”
  15. 7 Alexander the Clement: The royal virtue of clemency and its representation in the guise of Alexander in European courts
  16. 8 Alexander in the Palace: Scenes from court life
  17. 9 Alexander and Architecture: One empire and eight architectural wonders
  18. 10 Alexander’s Cadaver: The king beholds the king’s corpse. Melancholy and vanitas regia
  19. 11 Archaeological Postscript: A re-encounter at Gaugamela with the Alexander of Antiquity
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index