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Title Embodiments of power : building baroque cities in Europe / edited by Gary B. Cohen and Franz A.J. Szabo
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 283 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 10
Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 10.
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
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 among architecture and art, power, religion, and society from a wide range of viewpoints and localities. From Kraków to Madrid and from Naples to Dresden, cities were reconfigured visually as well as politically and socially. Power, in both its political and architectural guises, had to be negotiated among constituents ranging from monarchs and high churchmen to ordinary citizens. Within this process, both rulers and ruled were transformed: Europe left behind the last vestiges of the medieval and arrived on the threshold of the modern
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-276) and index
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Subject City planning -- Europe -- History
Power (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History
Power (Social sciences) -- Austria -- History
Architecture, Baroque -- Europe
Architecture, Baroque -- Austria
Cities and towns, Renaissance.
Sociology, Urban -- Europe
Sociology, Urban -- Austria
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Austria & Hungary.
Architecture, Baroque
Cities and towns, Renaissance
City planning
Power (Social sciences)
Sociology, Urban
Austria
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cohen, Gary B., 1948- editor.
Szabo, Franz A. J., editor.
LC no. 2008008507
ISBN 9780857450500
0857450506
9781282626911
1282626914