Artful armies, beautiful battles :

Artful armies, beautiful battles : art and warfare in early modern Europe / edited by Pia Cuneo. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002. - xii, 266 p. [30] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. - History of warfare, v. 9 0928-0731 ; .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-248) and indexes.

Military science, history, and art / Guy Wilson -- Warfare and artistic production in the German lands during the Thirty Years War (1618-48) / Sigrun Haude -- Shining armor : Emperor Maximilian, chivalry, and war / Larry Silver -- Images of warfare as political legitimization : Jörg Breu the Elder's rondels for Maximilian I's hunting lodge at Lermos (ca. 1516) / Pia F. Cuneo -- Giogio Vasari's and Niccolò Machiavelli's Medicean emblams of war and peace in the portrait of Duke Alessandro de Medici / Liana de Girolami Cheney -- Seventeenth-century French images of warfare / Julie Anne Plax -- Soldiers and gypsies : outsiders and their families in early sixteenth century German art / R. Andrew Morrall -- Remembering Amalek and Nebuchadnezzar : biblical warfare and symbolic violence in two images in Italian Renaissance Yiddish books of customs / Diane Wolfthal -- Battling fortune in sixteenth-century Italy : Cellini and the changing faces of Fortuna / Gwendolyn Trottein.

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Art and war.
War in art.
Art, European--16th century.
Art, European--17th century.

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