Class Year
2025
Document Type
Student Research Paper
Date of Creation
Spring 2024
Department 1
History
Abstract
Habsburgian propaganda is most often understood within the context of the 17th and 18th centuries, during the monarchy's 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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Recommended Citation
Suter, Emily B., "Art and Propaganda :The Formation of Habsburg Absolutism" (2024). Student Publications. 1129.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/1129
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Comments
Written during off-campus study for HIST 304VA: Vienna Past and Present