Embodiments of power : building baroque cities in Europe /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Austrian and Habsburg studies ;
v. 10. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: embodiments of power: building baroque cities in Austria and Europe / Gary B. Cohen and Franz A.J. Szabo
- Embodiments of power? Baroque architecture in the former Habsburg residences of Graz and Innsbruck / Mark Hengerer
- Baroque comes for the archbishops: Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Johann Ernst Count Thun, and their ideals of "modern art" and architecture / Roswitha Juffinger
- Religious art and the formation of a Catholic identity in baroque Prague / Howard Louthan
- Prague, Wrocław, and Vienna: center and periphery in transformations of baroque culture? / Jiří Pešek
- Representation of the court and burghers in the baroque cities of the high road: Kraków, Wrocław, and Dresden in a historical comparison / Jan Harasimowicz
- From Protestant fortress to baroque apotheosis: Dresden from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / Barbara Marx
- A tale of two cities: Nuremberg and Munich / Jeffrey Chipps Smith
- Searching for the new Constantine: early modern Rome as a Spanish imperial city / Thomas Dandelet
- The zodiac in the streets: inscribing "Buon Governo" in baroque Naples / John A. Marino
- A setting for royal authority: the reshaping of Madrid, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries / David Ringrose
- Bibliography.