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

• Superior document: Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 10
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Cohen, Gary B., 1948-; Szabo, Franz A. J.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 10.
• Physical Description: xvii, 283 p. :; ill., maps.

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, 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.