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IKON 5 - Sovereign and Iconography of Power

This year Proceedings of the International Conference of Iconographic Studies – IKON journal addresses the iconography of sovereigns and political issues and introduces the texts presented at the Fifth international Conference of Iconographic Studies, held in Rijeka in May 2011, organized by the Centre for Iconographic Studies and the Department of Art History of the University of Rijeka and the Iconology Research Group at the Department of Art History at the Catholic University of Leuven. Collaboration with the University of Leuven has enabled endorsement of the platform for connecting institutions in iconographic studies, which in turn, facilitates networking, communication and exchange of ideas and project objectives among individuals and institutions. At the fifth conference the participants discussed various issues related to the specific topic - the iconography of rulers, politics and power in the visual arts and literature, as well as other related disciplines. The printed presentations cover important issues of the ideas of presence and role of rulers in exposing political authority and power and the formation of political iconography in the European regions. The politicization of particular area and political conotations within historical frame is one of the themes of artistic presentations, which is variously interpreted throughout historical periods, so that the articles deal with the political iconography of the periods from ancient to modern times in Europe and the ways of perception and presentation of these topics, as well as the specifics of the representations in certain areas under the influence of traditional culture and customs. The papers also discuss the iconographic variants before and after the Middle Ages of the representations of the sovereigns, with specific reference to the use of symbols and insignia, and the historical and cultural repercussions of these changes. The content of texts covers, among other topics, representation(s) of sovereign in art and literature, major outline and miscellaneous depictions, political concepts of representing a sovereign, images of sovereign as reflexions of political, cultural, ideological, theological and sociological ideas, sovereigns' portraits and social hierarchies, sovereigns as patrons, representations of sovereigns in different media, literary sources and tradition, anecdotal and satirical representations of rulers and regional characteristcs/specifics in the images of political power.

iconography; power; sovereign; art

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