Embodiments of Power: Building Baroque Cities in Europe

Published by Berghahn Books 2008

Embodiments of Power

Building Baroque Cities in Europe

Edited by: Gary B. Cohen and Franz A. J. Szabo

Volume 10 in the series Austrian and Habsburg Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857450500

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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 expression 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. From Krakow to Madrid and from Naples to Dresden, cities were reconfigured visually as well as politically and socially. Power, in both its political and architectural guises, had to be negotiated among constituents ranging from monarchs and high churchmen to ordinary citizens. Within this process, both rulers and ruled were transformed: Europe left behind the last vestiges of the medieval and arrived on the threshold of the modern.

Author / Editor information

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.

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.

Reviews

"This collection is distinguished by richness of content. Indeed, it offers, in addition to a rich historical analysis, an analysis of documentary materials derived from careful research in various European archives and libraries. There also is a rich and comprehensive bibliography and a useful index." · Canadian Journal of History

"...this collection contains a good bibliography; and its essays may provide useful points of introduction both for scholars and for advanced students." · Austrian History Yearbook

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xviii
INTRODUCTION Embodiments of Power: Building Baroque Cities in Austria and Europe Gary B. Cohen and Franz A.J. Szabo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 EMBODIMENTS OF POWER? Baroque Architecture in the Former Habsburg Residences of Graz and Innsbruck Mark Hengerer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Chapter 2 BAROQUE COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOPS Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Johann Ernst Count Thun, and Their Ideals of “Modern Art” and Architecture Roswitha Juffinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 3 RELIGIOUS ART AND THE FORMATION OF A CATHOLIC IDENTITY IN BAROQUE PRAGUE Howard Louthan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 4 PRAGUE, WROCŁAW, AND VIENNA Center and Periphery in Transformations of Baroque Culture? Jiří Pešek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Chapter 5 REPRESENTATION OF THE COURT AND BURGHERS IN THE BAROQUE CITIES OF THE HIGH ROAD Kraków, Wrocław, and Dresden in a Historical Comparison Jan Harasimowicz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Chapter 6 FROM PROTESTANT FORTRESS TO BAROQUE APOTHEOSIS Dresden from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century1 Barbara Marx Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Chapter 7 A TALE OF TWO CITIES Nuremberg and Munich Jeffrey Chipps Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Chapter 8 SEARCHING FOR THE NEW CONSTANTINE Early Modern Rome as a Spanish Imperial City Thomas Dandelet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Chapter 9 THE ZODIAC IN THE STREETS Inscribing “Buon Governo” in Baroque Naples John A. Marino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Chapter 10 A SETTING FOR ROYAL AUTHORITY Th e Reshaping of Madrid, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries David Ringrose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Keywords: History: Medieval/Early Modern; History: 18th/19th Century; Urban Studies

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Published: July 1, 2008
ISBN: 9780857450500