@article{1384421,
      author = {Gregg, Ryan E.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1384421},
      title = {City views in the Habsburg and Medici courts : depictions  of rhetoric and rule in the sixteenth century /},
      abstract = {"In City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts, Ryan E.  Gregg relates how Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke  Cosimo I of Tuscany employed city view artists such as  Anton van den Wyngaerde and Giovanni Stradano to aid in  constructing authority. These artists produced a specific  style of city view that shared affinity with Renaissance  historiographic practice in its use of optical evidence and  rhetorical techniques. History has tended to see city views  as accurate recordings of built environments. Bringing  together ancient and Renaissance texts, archival material,  and fieldwork in the depicted locations, Gregg demonstrates  that a close-knit school of city view artists instead  manipulated settings to help persuade audiences of the  truthfulness of their patrons' official narratives"--},
      recid = {1384421},
      pages = {1 online resource (440 pages) :},
}