City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts

Ryan E. Gregg, Ph.D. (2009, The Johns Hopkins University), is Associate Professor of Art History at Webster University. He has published multiple articles on city views, including “Further Insights into Anton van den Wyngaerde’s Working Methods” (Master Drawings 51, 2013).

“densely informative, intelligently written and richly researched.”Valeria Manfrè, Universidad de Valladolid. In: Imago Mundi, Vol. 72, No. 1 (2020), p. 75-76.“ein höchst anregendes, mit großer Sorgfalt und Umsicht gearbeitetes Werk mit reichhaltiger Bibliographie und Register.”Ferdinand Opll, Universität Wien. In: Wiener Geschichtsblätter, 74. Jahrgang, Heft 3 (2019), S. 329-331.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1 Witnessing Sovereignty: Anton van den Wyngaerde’s City Views as Habsburg Courtly Propaganda1 The Archival Material: Their Evidentiary Problems and Indications2 Eyewitness to History: The Habsburg Use of City Views3 Genoa: City View as History and as Impresa4 Cantecroy, Mechelen, and the English Palaces: Claims of Dominion5 Brussels and Utrecht: Demonstrations of Sovereignty6 The Italian Views: Van den Wyngaerde in the Imperial Train7 Ancona and Lyon8 Conclusion2 The Antwerp School of City Views1 Fertile Foundations2 The Catalyst: Charles V’s Entry into Rome3 Technique, Style, and Viewing Experiences4 Coalition5 Contemporary Recognition6 Conclusion3 Vasari, Historiography, and the Rhetoric of City Views1 History, Truthfulness, and Setting2 The Tropes of Enargeia: Sieges, Ships, and City Views3 Viewing City Towers: Vision, Cognition, and Simulacra4 Nature or Artifice? The Mannerism of Antwerp School City Views5 City Views as Analogy for Judgment6 Enargeia and Eyewitnessing in Vasari’s Historiographic Practice7 Vasari’s Description of City View Methodology: a Verbal Artist Figure8 Borghini’s New Historiography and the City Views9 Conclusion4 Defining Ducal Dominion: Giovanni Stradano’s City Views in the Apartment of Leo X1 The Room of Giovanni delle Bande Nere2 The Room of Clement VII3 The Room of Cosimo I4 ConclusionCoda: Heirs to Dominion1 Heirs to PatronageBibliographyIndex