Initial anamorphosis and Carlos V
Abstract
One of the lesser known aspects of iconography, which was created around the figure of Carlos v, are anamorphic portraits, which use distorted perspectives, five of which still remain on the Iberian Peninsula. These images clearly illustrate the ideal of a Renaissance monarch, a mixture of a warrior and a scholar and they anticipated the crisis of confidence in the reality that was beginning to introduce itself into mannerist environments.
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