The entertainment of his most excellent majestie Charles II’: royalty representation and its visualization in a festival book by John Ogilby and Wenceslaus Hollar = Královská reprezentace a její vizualizace ve festivalové knize od Johna Ogilbyho a Václava Hollara

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a1_This article is focused on mediality and the representation of a historical event through artistic instruments and tactics in art form. The record the article examines is the official festival book devoted to the processions and coronation of King Charles II of England, created by John Ogilby (1600-1676), accompanied by a description of the coronation by Elias Ashmole (1617-1692) and prints by Wenceslaus Hollar (1600–1677), and published in 1662. In 1660 Charles II reclaimed the English throne, lost by his father Charles I in 1648. After three civil wars and the unexpected death of Oliver Cromwell, Parliament decided that to preserve peace and order in England the best thing to do would be to recall the king from his exile in the Netherlands. Charles II became one of only a few rulers in early modern history to have his power and future reign taken from him in a bloody revolution and then have it returned to him. An important element of his triumphal return were the celebrations of his coronation on 22 and 23 April 1661 in London. A royal celebration can be regarded as a ‘representative spectacle’, an instrument for making a mass impression on the people and thereby demonstrating the power of a monarch over the land and in politics. … celý popis

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Hlavní autor:

Tomáš Murár

Typ dokumentu:

Články

Publikováno v:

Umění. -- ISSN 0049-5123. -- Roč. 62, č. 6 (2014), s. 516-528

Témata:

Karel > II., > anglický a skotský král, > 1630-1685

Hollar, Václav, > 1607-1677

17. století

zobrazení (umění)

vizualizace informací

slavnostní průvody

representation (art)

information visualization

festive processions

korunovace

coronations

články

journal articles

Fyzický popis:

il.

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