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(At)testing Virtue: Shine and the Materiality of Metals in the Construction of Habsburg Nobility (1477–1519)
… Maximilian (c. 1496). I show how their dazzling, iridescent and fire-gilded surfaces serve to underline their pictorial and textual evocations of the celestial sphere in support of Maximilian’s sovereign authority. Intimately linked to ideals of material perfecting and princely virtue, I expound …