Art Patronage and Conflicting Memories in Early Modern Iberia (English, Maria Teresa Chicote Pompanin)

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This volume investigates the mechanisms (artworks, treatises, and other forms of cultural patronage) that the Marquises of Villena and their opponents used to operate in the cultural battlefield of the time with the aim of understanding how their conflicting historical memories were constructed and manipulated. Concentrating on the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the book examines these two aristocrats and demonstrates that politica…

ISBN: 9781032406688