La Place du Prince

Perspective et pouvoir dans le theatre de cour des Medicis, Florence (1539-1600)

by Dorothee Marciak

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Extent: 381 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies

Series: Etudes et essais sur la Renaissance

Series volume number: 50

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(May 2018)

ISBN: 9782406081852

Price: $83.00

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Adapting pictorial perspective to the theater of the Medici court in the sixteenth century consecrated the apparatus of illusionist representation as instrumentum regni. The “place of the prince” provides an operative image of sovereign power that post-Tridentine political thought would identify as the eye of God.

  • By (author) Dorothee Marciak