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(At)testing Virtue: Shine and the Materiality of Metals in the Construction of Habsburg Nobility (1477–1519)
… generic interpretations of metals as precious materialia, I show how metallic matter and its visual effects were sought out to materialise the position of Maximilian and his dynasty in a cosmological hierarchy of divine grace. At the core of this study stands the poetic and epistemic slippage …