table of contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Urte Krass
Visualizing Portuguese Power. Between Imperial Agenda and Agency of the Image. An Introduction
Carla Alferes Pinto
Artistic Images and Objects as Agents of Politics and Religion. The Foundation Stone of the Convent of Saint Monica in Goa and the Processional Standard with the Miracle of the Crucified Christ
Márcia Almada
Calligraphy and the Royal Emblems. An Analysis of Portuguese and Brazilian Painted Manuscripts in the 18th Century
Maria Berbara
Imperial Propaganda and the Representation of Otherness in Portugal in the Early Modern Times
Pamila Gupta
“Dressed Up” in 17th Century Goa
Barbara Karl
Allegory and Narrative. Two Bengal “Colchas” and the Independence of Portugal
Urte Krass
Loyalty Made Visible. Pyrotechnics and Processions for King John IV in Macao in 1642
Giuseppe Marcocci
Stones of Contention. Factions, Statues, and the Political Use of Memory in Early Modern Goa
Giuseppina Raggi
Building the Image of the Portuguese Empire. The Power of Quadratura Painting in Colonial Brazil
Jeremy Roe
Book Illustrations and the Politics of Publishing. A Survey of the Illustrations for the Lisbon Editions of the Asia Portuguesa and Europa Portuguesa by Manuel de Faria e Sousa
Ines G. Županov
From Descriptive/Verbal to Pictorial Visualizations. Appropriating Images of Nature in the Portuguese Empire in Asia (16th and 17th Centuries)
Jens Baumgarten
Afterword. Artifacts and Their Political Meaning—Political Iconography and Globalization
