Art and Propaganda :The Formation of Habsburg Absolutism

Abstract

Habsburgian propaganda is most often understood within the context of the 17th and 18th centuries, during the monarchy\u27s period of baroque absolutism, causing earlier attempts at propaganda and centralization to be seen as ineffective in comparison. However, through analyzing royal, propagandistic art in the 16th century empire, produced by monarchs beginning as early as Maximilian I, it becomes clear that a unified foundation of an absolutist policy was developed and fostered within this era, one which was a necessity in the success of the absolutist ideologies two centuries later. Through analyzing trends of royal, propagandistic art in the 16th century empire, not only is the root of the Habsburg family’s rise to power better understood, but the foundation of an absolutist ideology and public policy that would become central to Habsburg rule until its dissolvement in 1918

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This paper was published in Gettysburg College.

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