Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Em

by Larry Silver

Long before the photo op, political rulers were manipulating visual imagery to cultivate their authority and spread their ideology. Born just decades after Gutenberg, the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) was, Larry Silver argues, the first ruler to exploit the propaganda power of printed images and text. Marketing Maximilian explores how Maximilian used illustrations and other visual arts to shape his image, achieve what Max Weber calls...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691130191
• ISBN13: 9780691130194
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.2" x 10.1"