Pomp, Power, and Politics
Subtitle: Essays on German and Scandinavian Court Culture and Their Contexts (Daphnis, Vol. 32/1-2)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: July 2004
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9789042017115
First sentence: This article attempts to interpret a representative selection of royal portraits - mainly those painted by Karel van Mander III - from the point of view of Baroque rhetoric, thereby considering the stages of artistic production as well as the portrait's function in Danish diplomacy during the difficult years of the 1640's.