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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.

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ein hoechst anregendes, mit grosser Sorgfalt und Umsicht gearbeitetes Werk mit reichhaltiger Bibliographie und Register. Ferdinand Opll, Universitat Wien. In: Wiener Geschichtsblatter, 74. Jahrgang, Heft 3 (2019), S. 329-331.

densely informative, intelligently written and richly researched. Valeria Manfre, Universidad de Valladolid. In: Imago Mundi, Vol. 72, No. 1 (2020), p. 75-76. ein hoechst anregendes, mit grosser Sorgfalt und Umsicht gearbeitetes Werk mit reichhaltiger Bibliographie und Register. Ferdinand Opll, Universitat Wien. In: Wiener Geschichtsblatter, 74. Jahrgang, Heft 3 (2019), S. 329-331.

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Ryan E. Gregg, Ph.D. (2009, The Johns Hopkins University), is Associate Professor of Art History at Webster University. He has published multiple articles on city views, including Further Insights into Anton van den Wyngaerde's Working Methods (Master Drawings 51, 2013).

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