04273nam 2200733 a 450 991049319100332120170816124710.01-282-62691-497866126269130-85745-050-6(CKB)2560000000012106(EBL)544325(OCoLC)645100790(SSID)ssj0000431858(PQKBManifestationID)12143077(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431858(PQKBWorkID)10475498(PQKB)10529142(MiAaPQ)EBC544325(EXLCZ)99256000000001210620080225d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEmbodiments of power[electronic resource] building baroque cities in Europe /edited by Gary B. Cohen and Franz A.J. Szabo1st ed.New York Berghahn Books20081 online resource (301 p.)Austrian and Habsburg studies ;v. 10Description based upon print version of record.1-84545-433-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-276) and index.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.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 Austrian and Habsburg studies ;v. 10.City planningEuropeHistoryPower (Social sciences)EuropeHistoryPower (Social sciences)AustriaHistoryArchitecture, BaroqueEuropeArchitecture, BaroqueAustriaCities and towns, RenaissanceSociology, UrbanEuropeSociology, UrbanAustriaElectronic books.City planningHistory.Power (Social sciences)History.Power (Social sciences)History.Architecture, BaroqueArchitecture, BaroqueCities and towns, Renaissance.Sociology, UrbanSociology, Urban303.3094Cohen Gary B.1948-872983Szabo Franz A. J918606MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910493191003321Embodiments of power2468674UNINA