Politics and the arts in Lisbon and Rome : the Roman dream of John V of Portugal /

Dealing with a complex king, this edited collection elucidates a monarch's vision of Rome that deeply affected his political choices and cultural policy during the first half of the eighteenth century. John V of Portugal became king in 1707 in a pivotal moment for the European balance of power....

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Other Authors: Diez del Corral Corredoira, Pilar (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, [2019]
Series:Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2019:10.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : ill viaggio mancato--John V and the origins of his vision of Rome / Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira
  • I. Rome : paradigm and propaganda
  • Beyond policy : shaping the image of John V of Portugal in Rome / David Martín Marcos
  • Politics, spectacle and propaganda : the political use of patronage and the press by John V's representatives in Rome during the first half of the eighteenth century / Marília de Azambuja Ribeiro
  • 'S'unisca il Tago al Tebro, il Tebro al Tago' : the politics of Portuguese patronage in Alessandro Scarlatti's La Virtù negli amori / Danielle Kuntz
  • The accademia del Portogallo : emulation and strategy in the papal city / Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira
  • II. Lisbon : creative reappropriation
  • Music, ceremonial and architectural spaces in the patriarchal church of King John V : the remaking of Roman models / Cristina Fernandes
  • Antonio Tedeschi, 'Sanctæ Patriarchalis Ecclesiæ Regius Cantor' : an Italian musician at the court of John V / Fernando Miguel M. Jalôto
  • Rethinking the artistic policy of King John V of Portugal and Queen Maria Anna of Habsburg : architecture and opera theatre / Giuseppina Raggi
  • The marbles and the modelli of Mafra : John V and the taste for Italian baroque sculpture / Iris Haist.