Medieval Ecclesiastical Structures, Dynasty and Community: The Historical Stratification of Religious Centers in the Representations of Theatrum Sabaudiae (1682)

The Theatrum Sabaudiae is the main iconographic and chorographic undertaking promoted by the Savoy dynasty: developed in the third quarter of the 17th century, it was published in its first edition in Amsterdam in 1682 and presents a graphic corpus of 3 maps and 132 views. The tables are associated with descriptive reports, which make the Theatrum a dynamic representation of the State, caught in the moment of the recomposition of territorial bodies assembled, with different tools, between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries. The historical-architectural literature has so far mainly emphasized... Mehr ...