Visualizing Portuguese Power – The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th–18th Century)

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