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- Title
ESCENAS DE LA CORTE DE ALEJANDRO MAGNO Y SU RECEPCIÓN EN LA EDAD MODERNA.
- Authors
Mínguez Cornelles, Víctor M.
- Abstract
The imitatio Alexandri, started while the King of Macedonia was still alive and with great success in the Roman Empire -through written accounts and portraits of Alexander-, derived at the end of the Middle Ages and throughout the Early Modern Age in a visual corpus of great significance depicting his deeds in hundreds of miniatures, tapestries, paintings and prints that, as in Antiquity, projected a model of a ruler to emulate. The most common topics recreated were exemplary warfare and heroic episodes of his Asian campaign. Less frequent were the courtly scenes, perhaps because it is in the palatine activities where we could find the most polemic Alexander. In this text we analyze the depiction of some of these controversial moments of his life in the art of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
- Subjects
MACEDONIA; ALEXANDER, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.; MIDDLE Ages; ROMAN Empire, 30 B.C.-A.D. 476; EIGHTEENTH century; SEVENTEENTH century; MILITARY science; TAPESTRY
- Publication
Librosdelacorte.es, 2021, Issue 23, p276
- ISSN
1989-6425
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15366/ldc2021.13.23.011