The Seven Ancient Wonders in the Early Modern World

ISBN-13: 9780367199074 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 290 str.

Inmaculada Rodriguez-Moya; Victor Minguez

Opis

This monograph is a study of the artistic production that formed part of the various lists of the Seven Wonders that lasted beyond Antiquity and were recovered during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The study focuses in depth on the way they were evoked in modern artistic culture and the importance they had at European courts, linked to monarchs and princes as an image of power. 

O autorze

Inmaculada Rodríguez-Moya is Assistant Professor in the University Jaume I, Spain. Her research has followed four lines of investigation: Iconography of Power, Colonial Art, Emblem Studies and Urbanism History. That research has been published in the form of two peer-reviewed and awarded monographs: La Mirada del virrey (2003) and El retrato del poder en México, 1781–1867 (2006), seven co-authored monographs, including Himeneo en la corte (2013), along with edited volumes, articles and contributions. 
 
Víctor Mínguez is Full Professor in the University Jaume I, Spain. His research has followed three main lines of investigation: Images of Power, Emblematic Art and Latin American Art. His main research monographs are: Los reyes distantes (1995), Los reyes solares (2001) and La invención de Carlos II (2013); and, with Inmaculada Rodríguez-Moya, Himeneo en la Corte (2013) and Napoleón y el espejo de la Antigüedad (2014).