• Early Modern Diplomacy@hcommons.socialOP
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    9 months ago

    @historikerinnen@a.gup.pe @histodons@a.gup.pe @earlymodern@a.gup.pe

    For the #handbook, Natour tackles an even wider topic: the relation between #art and #diplomacy. She stresses the close but complicated relationship between (visual) art and #emdiplomacy. Diplomacy needed visualisation and art was one medium of communicating hierarchy, power and political messages. (3/7)

    #histodons #earlymodern #history #arthistory

    • Early Modern Diplomacy@hcommons.socialOP
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      9 months ago

      @historikerinnen@a.gup.pe @histodons@a.gup.pe @earlymodern@a.gup.pe

      Moreover, #emdiplomats played an increasing role in acquiring and commissioning #art acting as brokers in the developing market for art. This points to the close connection of #emdiplomacy, art, commerce and consumption.
      This again shows the manifold tasks that diplomats had to perform. They had not only to have knowledge about art and craftsmanship to be able to acquire them for their home #court, but they had to be able to decipher the hidden, allegorical meanings of art. (4/7)

      #history #histodons #arthistory #earlymodern

      • Early Modern Diplomacy@hcommons.socialOP
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        9 months ago

        @historikerinnen@a.gup.pe @histodons@a.gup.pe @earlymodern@a.gup.pe

        Additionally, #emdiplomats increasingly commissioned paintings themselves, often displaying them as diplomats. These paintings get more and more attention by current research. An especially famous example is Holbein’s The Ambassadors, showing the French ambassador to England, Jean de Dinteville. (5/7)

        #emdiplomacy #history #art #arthistory #histodons #earlymodern

        • Early Modern Diplomacy@hcommons.socialOP
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          9 months ago

          @historikerinnen@a.gup.pe @histodons@a.gup.pe @earlymodern@a.gup.pe

          That there’s still much to learn about the way #emdiplomats wanted to be present themselves, shows this rather unusual portrait of Sir John Luttrell painted by Hans Eworth. (6/7)

          #emdiplomacy #art #arthistory #earlymodern #history #histodons

          • Early Modern Diplomacy@hcommons.socialOP
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            9 months ago

            @historikerinnen@a.gup.pe @histodons@a.gup.pe @earlymodern@a.gup.pe

            Natour thus argues for more interdisciplinary cooperation between the history of diplomacy, art history, the history of music, the history of ideas as well as theatre and literary studies.
            If we want to understand what #emdiplomacy was and who #emdiplomats were, we need, according to Natour, include paintings and other visual media in our considerations. (7/7)

            #art #arthistory #NewDiplomaticHistory #history #histodons #earlymodern