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https://doi.org/10.32728/flux.2025.7.3
Frontispieces of Political Works in the Habsburg Monarchy (1660–1710)
Filip Draženović
orcid.org/0009-0004-0397-1053
; Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
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Sažetak
The article explores the significance of frontispieces in political works produced roughly between 1660 and 1710 in the territory of the Habsburg Monarchy, with a focus on Austrian and Bohemian lands. Frontispieces played a key role in this period as a visual-rhetorical device with which authors and publishers presented the content of the work and addressed readers. The article presents several examples of political frontispieces, such as works by Johannes Nicolaus Flämizer, Christian Weirauch, Franz Reinzer and others. The analysis shows that frontispieces were often designed allegorically, using universal symbols (e.g. virtues, state symbols, divine support) that expressed political values, idealized rule, and dynastic ambitions of the Habsburgs. The article concludes that frontispieces are an important source for understanding the visual political culture of the early modern period, as they offer symbolic models for interpreting politics, government and authority that complement but do not necessarily directly reflect the textual content of the works.
Ključne riječi
early modern period; frontispiece; political iconography; Habsburg Monarchy; visual rhetoric
Hrčak ID:
343320
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.1.2026.
Posjeta: 262 *