Embodiments of power building baroque cities in Europe / edited by Gary B. Cohen and Franz A.J. Szabo.
| Other author | Cohen, Gary B., 1948- |
| Other author | Szabo, Franz A. J. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Berghahn Books, |
| Description | xvii, 283 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-276) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008008507 |
| ISBN | 9781845454333 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1845454332 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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