Politics, Art and Persuasion in 15th Century Castile

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We are pleased to present the open access book "Politics, Art, and Persuasion in 15th-Century Castile" (Trea Publishers), by Matilde Miquel Juan and Olga Pérez Monzón, in collaboration with the Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute and Toledo Cathedral. This publishing project arose from the initial motivation to disseminate the research conducted on the Chapel of Álvaro de Luna ("Artistic Rhetoric in Late Gothic Castile: The Chapel of Álvaro de Luna in Context," Madrid, 2018) to a wider audience. To this end, while maintaining the same scholarly rigor, we developed a work in both digital and print formats, in two languages ​​(Spanish and English), that clearly enhances its perceptive and multisensory character. This laborious yet necessary process allowed us to approach the work from the perspectives of both visible and hidden realities, the creative process, comparisons and connections between foreign and Hispanic artists, crypto-portraits, and the confrontation and interrelation between the different image techniques used in the works.

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