Le finzioni del potere. L'Arco Trionfale di Albrecht Dürer per Massimiliano I d'Asburgo tra Milano e l'Impero

[Autom. eng. transl.] In the spring of 1512 Massimiliano I, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, conceived one of the most striking propaganda tools: a majestic triumphal arch on paper, a large poster high and over three meters wide, depicting the Hapsburg Triumph from ancient origins to present conquests . To transfigure history into myth, to feign reality in perennial symbols, the emperor calls the great Dürer, the German artist who had learned to update the classics since the Italian Renaissance. Its 192 engravings make up a marvelous blaze of words and images, destined, thanks to the reproducibility of the print, to resist almost more than marble. Presented in the library commissioned in Milan by the empress Maria Theresa of Austria in the late eighteenth century, the triumphal arch is imposed in today's culture, thus exposed, through the new media, to the phenomena of the communication of power. The volume is divided into three parts. The first proposes 6 Studies of context, with in-depth chapters on the work and on the historical-cultural panomara that saw it born; the second one is dedicated to the Arc, with 5 specific chapters on Dürer's masterpiece, with the description and technical commentary of the work, as well as the transcription of the texts. The third part consists of 55 catalog cards, relating to the works exhibited at the exhibition open from 7 May to 29 June at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense (Milan).