Visualizing Portuguese Power: The Political Use of Images in Portugal and Its Overseas Empire (16th-18th Century)

ISBN-13: 9783037347423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 384 str.

Urte Krass

Opis

Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more evident than in the process of empire building, in which visual language has long been a highly effective means of overpowering another culture with one's own values and beliefs.

With Visualizing Portuguese Power, Urte Krass and a group of contributors examine the visual arts within the Portuguese empire between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. With a focus on the political appropriation of Portuguese-Christian art within the colonies, the book looks at how these and other objects could be staged to generate new layers of meaning. Beyond religious images, the book shows that the appropriation of the visual arts to reinforce important political concepts also took place in the outside the religious sphere, including adaptations of local artistic customs to reinforce Portuguese power.

Spis treści

7 Preface and Acknowledgements9 - 18 Visualizing Portuguese Power (Urte Krass)19 - 48 Artistic Images and Objects as Agents of Politics and Religion (Carla Alferes Pinto)49 - 73 Calligraphy and the Royal Emblems (Márcia Almada)75 - 86 Imperial Propaganda and the Representation of Otherness in Portugal in the Early Modern Times (Maria Berbara)87 - 117 'Dressed Up' in 17th Century Goa (Pamila Gupta)119 - 140 Allegory and Narrative (Barbara Karl)141 - 171 Loyalty Made Visible (Urte Krass)173 - 195 Stones of Contention (Giuseppe Marcocci)197 - 234 Building the Image of the Portuguese Empire (Giuseppina Raggi)235 - 260 Book Illustrations and the Politics of Publishing (Jeremy Roe)261 - 287 From Descriptive/Verbal to Pictorial Visualizations (Ines G. Zupanov)289 - 295 Afterword (Jens Baumgarten)297 - 300 Contributors301 - 309 Index

O autorze

Krass, UrteUrte Krass ist Wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Ihre Forschungen widmen sich dem Heiligenbild von der Ikone bis zur Fotografie, der frühen Kunsttheorie in italienischen Novellen des 14. Jahrhunderts sowie aktuell dem politischen Bildgebrauch im portugiesischen Kolonialreich in der Frühen Neuzeit.