Embodiments of power : building baroque cities in Europe / edited by Gary B. Cohen and Franz A.J. Szabo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Gary B., 1948-

Szabo, Franz A. J.

Series:

Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 10.

Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Europe--History.

City planning.

Power (Social sciences)--Europe--History.

Power (Social sciences).

Power (Social sciences)--Austria--History.

Architecture, Baroque--Europe.

Architecture, Baroque.

Architecture, Baroque--Austria.

Cities and towns, Renaissance.

Sociology, Urban--Europe.

Sociology, Urban.

Sociology, Urban--Austria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The period of the baroque (late sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries) saw extensive reconfiguration of European cities and their public spaces. Yet, this transformation cannot be limited merely to signifying a style of art, architecture, and décor. Rather, the dynamism, emotionality, and potential for grandeur that were inherent in the baroque style developed in close interaction with the need and desire of post-Reformation Europeans to find visual expression for the new political, confessional, and societal realities. Highly illustrated, this volume examines these complex interrelationships

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, Wrocaw, and Vienna: center and periphery in transformations of baroque culture? / Jiri Pesek

Representation of the court and burghers in the baroque cities of the high road: Krakow, Wrocaw, 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-276) and index.

ISBN:

9786612626913

9781282626911

1282626914

9780857450500

0857450506

OCLC:

645100790