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Title: | Cuatro reyes para Sicilia Proclamaciones y coronaciones en Palermo 1700-1735 | | Authorship: | González Tornel, Pablo | | Mínguez Cornelles, Víctor Manuel | Pages: | 194 | Size: | 24 X 27 | Edition: | 1 (2016) | Price: | 40,00 € | Language: | Castellà | Binding: | Rústica cosida | Support: | Paper | Other formats: | | Between 1700 and 1735, as a result of the death of the last Spanish Habsburg, Charles II, without heirs to the throne, four kings succeeded to the Sicilian throne: Philip IV of Bourbon, Victor Amadeus of Savoy, Charles IV of Habsburg and Charles V of Bourbon. Each one of these transitions of power in Palermo, the capital of the kingdom, was followed by ceremonial and festive celebrations in which all the arts and resources of Baroque culture were brought together to exalt the new king. These celebrations, proclamations and coronations are the subject of this book. The best available architecture was combined with painting and sculpture to extol princes of very different origins and statuses, some of the dubious legitimacy which was never officially discussed. The exquisitely refined and elaborated ideologies and contents used the interweaving of history, religion, allegory and myth in a swan song for a particular view of power and relations between a prince and his subjects that suffered a decisive decline a few decades later. | Il·lustracions en color | Ressenya Revista Archivo Español Arte / Ressenya Revista BSAA arte, 83 (2017) |
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