Fluctuating Alliances: Art, Politics, and Diplomacy in the Modern Era

What was the role of art in the context of rapidly changing political alliances of the early modern period? The interdisciplinary contributions to this volume explore this question from the perspectives of War and Peace, Jesuits and Diplomacy, Negotiating with Faith, and Court and Diplomatic Celebrations. Special attention is paid to those art genres that were suitable for easy distribution due to their reproducibility, such as medals and prints. But also paintings, tombs and ephemeral festivities like fireworks served the manifestation of claims to power. The exemplary analyses provide a broad view of the political dimensions of early modern transcultural artistic exchange in Europe and beyond.