Abstract
This is the text of the presentation “Charles V and the Fury at the Prado Museum: The Power of the King’s Body as Image” at the International Conference “El poder del la imagen en el Museo del Prado” (Madrid, December 12th-13th, 2017). By analysing the bronze sculpture Charles V and the Fury (Leone and Pompeo Leoni, 1549-1564. Prado Museum, Madrid), this paper aims to underline the necessity to study royal images in their context (with particular attention to their visibility) to understand better their social use and function. This type of methodological approach can be without any doubt very useful for the historiography in the overall analysis of the leader’s portrait and can stimulate new researches for the future and reformulate some of the traditional conceptions on this topic.
Highlights
The leader’s powerIn an article from 1990, Enrico Pozzi saw the leadership of the American religious prophet Jim Jones, responsible for a mass suicide in Jonestown (Guyana) in 1978, as following the model of leader drawn up by Wilfred Bion
Resumen: Este es el texto de la ponencia " Charles V and the Fury at the Prado Museum: The Power of the King’s Body as Image ", presentada en el Congreso Internacional "El poder de la imagen en el Museo del Prado" (Madrid, 12 al 13 de diciembre de 2017)
This is the text of the presentation “Charles V and the Fury at the Prado Museum: The Power of the King’s Body as Image” at the International Conference “El poder del la imagen en el Museo del Prado” (Madrid, December 12th-13th, 2017)
Summary
In an article from 1990, Enrico Pozzi saw the leadership of the American religious prophet Jim Jones, responsible for a mass suicide in Jonestown (Guyana) in 1978, as following the model of leader drawn up by Wilfred Bion. While Freud’s holder of power constituted and made the group possible, Bion’s leader was constituted by the group and his charisma was a reflection of it In this way, we went from a functionalist and structuralist conception of power, which saw it as a property and prerogative of the dominating subject (whether it be a person or a group) originating outside society and exercised with the use of force over society in a relationship of command/obedience, to a pluralist conception of the same: power immanent to society; communitarian power reinterpreted as an acting-in-common and social being-together responding to society’s goals and exercised through a reticular organization which individuals move in while being subject to and at the same time exercising power (it is never the property of an individual but of a group and the leader is given power by that group). The sociological model of the leader-group relationship was coming to be defined in the way that Norbert Elias, in 1969, outlined the social relations within the court of Louis XIV of France: namely, as a network of interdependence in which everyone was bound to each other, so much so that, as Elias remarked, even the Sun King himself was a prisoner of his mechanism in which he did not just dominate, but was dominated
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