Court culture an Empire: the Libro del blasón by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo

The object of analysis is the project of an early treatise on Imprese by the Royal Chronicler of the Indies Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) as sketched in his unfinished <em>Libro del blasón</em>. Fernández de Oviedo's interest in the <em>Imprese</em> is explaine...

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Main Author: Jesús Carrillo Castillo
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Art i Musica 1998-12-01
Series:Locvs Amoenvs
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/locus/article/view/89
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Summary:The object of analysis is the project of an early treatise on Imprese by the Royal Chronicler of the Indies Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) as sketched in his unfinished <em>Libro del blasón</em>. Fernández de Oviedo's interest in the <em>Imprese</em> is explained as being the result of his contacts with both the Hispanic-Italian culture in which he was brought up, and the self-fashioning modes of knights and courtiers in the Imperial period of Charles V.
ISSN:1135-9722
2014-8798