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

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Superior document:Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 10
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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 10.
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Physical Description:xvii, 283 p. :; ill., maps.
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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.