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328 Sektion IV: Zeremonielle Räume und die „Öffentlichkeiten“ religious settings – the visual media had a decisive influence both as a means of claim- ing these spaces by the Habsburg house and as a powerful tool to stimulate a sense of political affiliation in the citizens of their hereditary lands. As for the representa- tion of the Habsburg monarchs, particularly in public spaces, the unique Croatian examples preserved until the present time include the high-relief portrait busts of emperors Leopold I and Charles VI (III) on the pediment of the city’s Sea Gate (City Gate) below the belfry in Rijeka (Italian: Fiume) (Fig. 1). Combined into a whole in 1753, the two busts, the centrally positioned Habsburg coat of arms with a Latin inscription carved into a cartouche below it in 1695 (“MAGNO LEOPOLDO I CAESARI / SVO CLEMENTIAE FLVMINI IN- EXHAUSTO / IOSEPHO I ROMANORVM HVNGARIAE REGI / PATRIS ORBIS ET VRBIS DELICIO / HAREDITARIA CIVITAS FLVMINI LIBVR- Figure 1: Rijeka, City Gate (Sea Gate, Porta al mare).