Embodiments of Power

by Cohen, Gary B.; Szabo, Franz A. J.

• ISBN13: 9781845454333
• ISBN10: 1845454332
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-15
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

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 decor. 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 expressions 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Gary B. Cohen is director of the Center for Austrian Studies and professor of history at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He teaches modern Central European social and political history and has published numerous articles and essays as well as two books in these areas.

Franz A. J. Szabo is director of the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies and professor of Austrian and Habsburg history at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He has published widely in Europe and North America, including a prize-winning book on Habsburg enlightened absolutism.

Table of Contents

Embodiments of power : building baroque cities in Austria and Europe	p. 1
Embodiments of power? : baroque architecture in the former Habsburg residences of Graz and Innsbruck	p. 9
Baroque comes for the archbishops : Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Johann Ernst Count Thun, and their ideals of "modern art" and architecture	p. 43
Religious art and the formation of a Catholic identity in baroque Prague	p. 53
Prague, Wroclaw, and Vienna : center and periphery in transformations of baroque culture?	p. 80
Representation of the court and burghers in the baroque cities of the high road : Krakow, Wroclaw, and Dresden in a historical comparison	p. 97
From Protestant fortress to baroque apotheosis : Dresden from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century	p. 120
A tale of two cities : Nuremberg and Munich	p. 164
Searching for the new Constantine : early modern Rome as a Spanish imperial city	p. 191
The zodiac in the streets : inscribing "Buon Governo" in baroque Naples	p. 203
A setting for royal authority : the reshaping of Madrid, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries	p. 230
Bibliography	p. 249
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