Ambrogio Spinola Between Genoa Flanders And Spain

Author : Silvia Mostaccio,Bernardo J. García García,Luca Lo Basso
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789462703421

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Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain by Silvia Mostaccio,Bernardo J. García García,Luca Lo Basso Pdf

Many of the most significant studies devoted to Ambrogio Spinola have focused on one particular aspect of his life: his successful military career. This volume, through its interdisciplinary and cultural approach, breaks open this all too narrow perspective and expands our understanding of Spinola and his world. As a great military strategist and Catholic knight, entrepreneur in the international finance market, courtier, and diplomat, Spinola was certainly a Genoese, but he was also a member of the transnational Iberian elite, to which he linked his fate and that of his children. His life's journey between Italy, Flanders, and Spain, and the reinterpretations of his life by his contemporaries in art, literature, and the press, give us the opportunity to reflect on the multiple identities and the physical and mental wanderings of many Europeans of the Early Modern Age. Ambrogio Spinola offers an example of humanity that is impossible to capture in a single reading and is much more contemporary than we can imagine. Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain allows the reader to better understand not only his military activities, but also (and above all) the family, social and political foundations of his successful career, as well as the various forms of art and communication (literature, architecture, paintings, sculptures, engravings, newspapers, etc.), which were used to celebrate him both during his life and beyond.

Author : Nina Lamal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004538078

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Italian Communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) by Nina Lamal Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Nina Lamal provides a compelling account of Italian information and communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries, casting an entirely new light on the keen Italian interest and involvement in this protracted conflict.

Author : William Caferro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351849463

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The Routledge History of the Renaissance by William Caferro Pdf

Drawing together the latest research in the field, The Routledge History of the Renaissance treats the Renaissance not as a static concept, but as one of ongoing change within an international framework. It takes as its unifying theme the idea of exchange and interchange through the movement of goods, ideas, disease and people, across social, religious, political and physical boundaries. Covering a broad range of temporal periods and geographic regions, the chapters discuss topics such as the material cultures of Renaissance societies; the increased popularity of shopping as a pastime in fourteenth-century Italy; military entrepreneurs and their networks across Europe; the emergence and development of the Ottoman empire from the early fourteenth to the late sixteenth century; and women and humanism in Renaissance Europe. The volume is interdisciplinary in nature, combining historical methodology with techniques from the fields of anthropology, sociology, psychology and literary criticism. It allows for juxtapositions of approaches that are usually segregated into traditional subfields, such as intellectual, political, gender, military and economic history. Capturing dynamic new approaches to the study of this fascinating period and illustrated throughout with images, figures and tables, this comprehensive volume is a valuable resource for all students and scholars of the Renaissance.

Author : William Maltby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350307612

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The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire by William Maltby Pdf

At its peak the Spanish empire stretched from Italy and the Netherlands to Peru and the Philippines. Its influence remains very significant to the history of Europe and the Americas. Maltby provides a concise and readable history of the empire's dramatic rise and fall, with special emphasis on the economy, institutions and intellectual movements.

Author : Anthony Bailey
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429973779

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Velázquez and The Surrender of Breda by Anthony Bailey Pdf

Behind the famous painting by Diego Velázquez lies a rich story of the artist's life in art What began as propaganda art to celebrate a rare Spanish victory in the Eighty Years' War with Holland, The Surrender at Breda is today recognized as Velázquez's narrative masterpiece. Breda is packed with vivid military detail—whole armies are suggested on the huge canvas, twelve feet high and eleven feet wide. Unlike typical surrender scenes, there is neither a heroic victor on horseback nor a vanquished commander on his knees. Instead the rivals appear on foot almost as equals. The loser bends forward to offer the key and receives a chivalrous pat on his shoulder, as if to say: "Fortune has favored me, but our roles might have been reversed." Anthony Bailey examines the paintings from which the artist arose, coaxing stories from them that flesh out a complete portrait of one of the world's major artists whose personal life has remained largely unknown.

Author : Natacha Klein Käfer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031358470

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Privacy at Sea by Natacha Klein Käfer Pdf

This book explores the idea of privacy at sea, from early sixteenth-century maritime expansions to nineteenth-century naval developments. In this period, the sea became a focal point of political and economic ambition as technological and cultural shifts enabled a more extensive exploration of maritime spaces and global coexistence at sea. The exploration of the sea and the conflicts arising from establishing control over maritime routes demanded a more nuanced distinction and negotiation between State and private efforts. Privateering, for example, became a bridge between the private enterprises and the State’s warfares or trade struggles, demonstrating that the sea required public control at the same time as it enabled private endeavours. Although this tension between private and public interests has been explored in military and economic studies, questions of how the private appeared in maritime history have been discussed only through a particularly merchantile lens. This volume adds a new dimension to this discussion by focusing on how privacy and the private were perceived and created by the historical agents at sea. We aim to move beyond the mercantile “private” as a direct opposite to the “public” or the State, thereby opening the discussion of privacy at sea as a multiplicity of lived experiences. Chapters 1, 8 and 14 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Jonathan Bober,Piero Boccardo,Franco Boggero,Peter Lukehart,Andrea Zanini
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691206516

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Art in Genoa, 1600-1750 by Jonathan Bober,Piero Boccardo,Franco Boggero,Peter Lukehart,Andrea Zanini Pdf

Genoa completed its transformation from a faded maritime power into a thriving banking center for Europe in the seventeenth century. The wealth accumulated by its leading families spurred investment in the visual arts on an enormous scale. This volume explores how artists both foreign and native created a singularly rich and extravagant expression of the baroque in works of extraordinary variety, sumptuousness, and exuberance. This art, however, has remained largely hidden behind the facades of the city's palaces, with few works, apart from those by the school's great expatriates, found beyond its borders. As a result, the Genoese baroque has been insufficiently considered or appreciated.0Lavishly illustrated, 'A Superb Baroque' is comprehensive, encompassing all the major media and participants. Presented are some 140 select works by the celebrated foreigners drawn to the city and its flourishing environment. Offering three levels of exploration-essays that frame and interpret, section introductions that characterize principal currents and stages, and texts that elucidate individual works-this volume is by far the most extensive study of the Genoese baroque in the English language.00Exhibition: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA (03.05.-16.08.2020) / Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy (03.10.2020 - 10.01.2021).

Author : Thomas Allison Kirk
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781421409665

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Genoa and the Sea by Thomas Allison Kirk Pdf

Genoa's transformations offer insight into the significant and sweeping changes that were taking place all over Europe.

Author : Henry Kamen
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141927329

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Spain's Road to Empire by Henry Kamen Pdf

How did a barren, thinly populated country, somewhat isolated from the rest of Europe become the world's first superpower? Henry Kamen's tremendous new book takes full advantage of its great theme to recreate the dazzling world of militant Castile from the fall of Moorish Granada and Columbus' first voyage to the imperial collapse over three centuries later. There is no better account in English of this immense, brutal adventure - a ceaseless quest for land, gold and slaves that made Spain, both for its conquered peoples and much of the rest of Europe, into a rapacious nightmare.

Author : Paul Arblaster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137611888

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A History of the Low Countries by Paul Arblaster Pdf

This introductory overview of the Low Countries' history traces their development since Roman times, providing equal weighting to the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Paul Arblaster looks at political, cultural and social history, including the rise of the merchant classes, the Renaissance and Golden Age, and the two world wars of the 20th century. The final chapter has been expanded and revised to take into account developments since 2011. This third edition is thoroughly updated and revised throughout and benefits from our recently refreshed series design. This timely and engaging narrative provides an invaluable starting-point for students of History focusing on the Low Countries, European Studies and Dutch studies. New to this Edition: - More detail on the EU, particularly current in light of Brexit and Euroscepticism - More environmental and global history - Coverage of the latest political developments - More maps, to bridge the gap between the 15th century and the present day - An updated bibliography

Author : Gregory Hanlon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429768408

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European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750 by Gregory Hanlon Pdf

European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750: Fierce Pageant examines more than 200 years of international rivalry across Western, Central, and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean rim. The book charts the increasing scale, expenditure and duration of early modern wars; the impact of modern fortification on strategy and the movement of armies; the incidence of guerrilla war and localized conflict typical of the French wars of religion; the recourse by warlords to private financing of troops and supplies; and the creation of disciplined standing armies and navies in the age of Absolutism, made possible by larger bureaucracies. In addition to discussing key events and personalities of military rivalry during this period, the book describes the operational mechanics of early modern warfare and the crucial role of taxation and state borrowing. The relationship between the Christian West and the Ottoman Empire is also extensively analysed. Drawing heavily upon international scholarship over the past half-century, European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750: Fierce Pageant will be of great use to undergraduate students studying military history and early modern Europe.

Author : Gregory Hanlon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135361433

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The Twilight Of A Military Tradition by Gregory Hanlon Pdf

First published in 2002. This work of military history integrates the Italian dimension into the wider political and military history of early modern Europe.

Author : Ciro Paoletti
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073660030

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A Military History of Italy by Ciro Paoletti Pdf

This book follows Italy's military history from the late Renaissance through the present day, arguing that its leaders have consistently looked back to the power of Imperial Rome as they sought to bolster Italy's status and influence in the world. As early as the late 15th century, Italian city-states played important roles in European conflicts. After unification in 1861, the military would become the nation's unifying force, the melting pot of the state. Italy's industrial and then colonial expansion brought it into the wars of the 20th century. The rise of fascist movement was the disastrous consequence of Italy's desire for colonial and military power, a history that the nation still confronts as it seeks to play a role in world politics. Wealthy, urban Italy has always had great political, cultural, and strategic importance for Europe. The leaders of its independent city-states intervened militarily in struggles among the European powers to its north and west but also against the expanding Muslim empires to its south and east. Italian culture supported military innovation, developing (for instance) new fortifications and naval organizations. After centuries of division, which limited Italy's power against the larger, unified European nations, the military played an important role in the nationalist unification of the entire country. Rapid industrialization followed, and along with it Italy's forays into overseas colonialism. Italy became a major power, but its turn to militant fascism during its expansionist era continues to haunt its state and military.

Author : Peter J Holliday,Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Classical Archaeology Peter J Holliday
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190901080

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Power, Image, and Memory by Peter J Holliday,Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Classical Archaeology Peter J Holliday Pdf

Power, Image, and Memory examines how leaders and societies have used works of art commemorating historical events to shape collective memory. Through iconic artworks over centuries and across the globe, it explores the power of art to affirm cultural identities and thereby mold social groups and nations.

Author : Peter van den Brink
Publisher : Waanders Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X004765415

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ArtMatters by Peter van den Brink Pdf