Summary Starting from a political reality, which is, at the same time, artistic and cultural, the book Ars Hasburgica aims to review the still so common historiographical conception of the Renaissance that conceives this period from a geographically Italocentric, artistically classicist and politically centered the idea of "national" arts and schools. But Renaissance is a more global and complex phenomenon. What this book aims to offer is an idea of the art of that period that considers the role played by the Habsburg dynasty and its various courts in this period, trying to verify whether, by applying other historiographic models, and having the art of the Casa de Austria as a focus, traditional ideas can continue to be maintained well into the twenty-first century. We refer to the so-called "Vasari paradigm", on which art history of the sixteenth century has largely been built over the last centuries. It is also intended to structure concepts about the art of the period not so much around nationalist considerations and identities of the arts, but to raise these issues throughout ideas such as that of the court as a political, artistic and cultural sphere, in the wake of the classical studies by Norbert Elias, Amedeo Quondam or Carlo Ossola. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Ars Habsburgica, or New Perspectives on Sixteenth-Century European Art Fernando Checa and Miguel Ángel Zalama Habsburg Politics and Cultures in the Sixteenth Century: the Cosmopolitan Iberian Experience of Empires and Kingdoms Fernando Bouza A Theory of Art for the Habsburg Renaissance´ Fernando Checa Rethinking Vasari: Art and Arts in the Sixteenth Century Miguel Ángel Zalama The Antithesis between the Vasarian Canon and the Habsburg Model of the Arts: Defining National Identity in the Italian Risorgimento Matteo Mancini Luxury and Identity in the Sixteenth-Century Habsburg Courts Jesús F. Pascual Molina Food as a Strategy of Power: the Political Role of Banquets in Prince Philips's Felicísimo Viaje (1548-1551) Vanessa Quintanar Cabello His Polis: The Habsburg Naval Epic in the Mediterranean Víctor Mínguez Habsburg Mars: The House of Austria and the Artistic Representation of Land Warfare Antonio Gozalbo Nadal Sixteenth-Century Notions on Spolia and Triumph Representation Antonio Urquízar-Herrera The Armamentarium Heroicum of Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol Christian Beaufort-Spontin The Habsburgs and Emblematic Literature: a Historiographical Assessment Patricia Andrés González Books and Libraries in the Construction of the Habsburg Dynasty's Image during the Sixteenth Century José Luis Gonzalo Sánchez-Molero Epic and Truth: Writing for the Habsburgs in Sixteenth-Century Spain María José Vega Philip II as Rex Pacificus: Belligerence and Pacifism in Epic Versions of the Battle of Saint-Quentin (1557) Lara Vilà Notes on the Contributors Index of Names