Visualizing Portuguese Power
The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th-18th Century)
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Visualizing Portuguese Power
The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th-18th Century)
Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more evident than in the process of empire building, in which visual language has long been a highly effective means of overpowering another culture with one’s own values and beliefs.
With Visualizing Portuguese Power, Urte Krass and a group of contributors examine the visual arts within the Portuguese empire between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. With a focus on the political appropriation of Portuguese-Christian art within the colonies, the book looks at how these and other objects could be staged to generate new layers of meaning. Beyond religious images, the book shows that the appropriation of the visual arts to reinforce important political concepts also took place in the outside the religious sphere, including adaptations of local artistic customs to reinforce Portuguese power.
With Visualizing Portuguese Power, Urte Krass and a group of contributors examine the visual arts within the Portuguese empire between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. With a focus on the political appropriation of Portuguese-Christian art within the colonies, the book looks at how these and other objects could be staged to generate new layers of meaning. Beyond religious images, the book shows that the appropriation of the visual arts to reinforce important political concepts also took place in the outside the religious sphere, including adaptations of local artistic customs to reinforce Portuguese power.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Urte Krass
Visualizing Portuguese Power: Between Imperial Agenda and Agency of the Image. An Introduction
Carla Alferes Pinto
Artistic Images and Objects as Agents of Politics and Religion: The Foundation Stone of the Convent of Saint Monica in Goa and the Processional Standard with the Miracle of the Crucified Christ
Márcia Almada
Calligraphy and Royal Symbols: An Analysis of Portuguese and Brazilian Painted Manuscripts in the 18th Century
Maria Berbara
Imperial Propaganda and the Representation of Otherness in Portugal in Early Modern Times
Pamila Gupta
‘Dressed Up’ in 17th Century Goa
Barbara Karl
Allegory and Narrative: Two Bengal Colchas and the Independence of Portugal
Urte Krass
Loyalty Made Visible: Pyrotechnices and Processions for King John IV in Macao in 1642
Giuseppe Marcocci
Stones of Contention: Factions, Statues, and the Political Use of Memory in Early Modern Goa
Giuseppina Raggi
Building the Image of the Portuguese Empire: The Power of Quadratura Painting in Colonial Brazil
Jeremy Roe
Book Illustrations and the Politics of Publishing: A Survey of the Illustrations for the Lisbon Editions of the Asia Portuguesa and Europa Portuguesa by Manuel de Faria e Sousa
Ines G. Županov
From Descriptive/Verbal to Pictorial Visualizations: Appropriating Nature in the Portuguese Empire in Asia (16th and 17th Centuries)
Jens Baumgarten
Afterword: Artifacts and Their Political Meaning— Political Iconography and Globalization
Contributors
Index
Urte Krass
Visualizing Portuguese Power: Between Imperial Agenda and Agency of the Image. An Introduction
Carla Alferes Pinto
Artistic Images and Objects as Agents of Politics and Religion: The Foundation Stone of the Convent of Saint Monica in Goa and the Processional Standard with the Miracle of the Crucified Christ
Márcia Almada
Calligraphy and Royal Symbols: An Analysis of Portuguese and Brazilian Painted Manuscripts in the 18th Century
Maria Berbara
Imperial Propaganda and the Representation of Otherness in Portugal in Early Modern Times
Pamila Gupta
‘Dressed Up’ in 17th Century Goa
Barbara Karl
Allegory and Narrative: Two Bengal Colchas and the Independence of Portugal
Urte Krass
Loyalty Made Visible: Pyrotechnices and Processions for King John IV in Macao in 1642
Giuseppe Marcocci
Stones of Contention: Factions, Statues, and the Political Use of Memory in Early Modern Goa
Giuseppina Raggi
Building the Image of the Portuguese Empire: The Power of Quadratura Painting in Colonial Brazil
Jeremy Roe
Book Illustrations and the Politics of Publishing: A Survey of the Illustrations for the Lisbon Editions of the Asia Portuguesa and Europa Portuguesa by Manuel de Faria e Sousa
Ines G. Županov
From Descriptive/Verbal to Pictorial Visualizations: Appropriating Nature in the Portuguese Empire in Asia (16th and 17th Centuries)
Jens Baumgarten
Afterword: Artifacts and Their Political Meaning— Political Iconography and Globalization
Contributors
Index