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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 décor. Rather, the dynamism, emotionality, and potential...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cohen, Gary B., 1948- (Editor ), Szabo, Franz A. J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 10.
Temas:
City planning > Europe > History.
Power (Social sciences) > Europe > History.
Power (Social sciences) > Austria > History.
Architecture, Baroque > Europe.
Architecture, Baroque > Austria.
Cities and towns, Renaissance.
Sociology, Urban > Europe.
Sociology, Urban > Austria.
Architecture baroque > Europe.
Architecture baroque > Autriche.
Villes de la Renaissance.
Sociologie urbaine > Europe.
Sociologie urbaine > Autriche.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Europe > Austria & Hungary.
Architecture, Baroque
Cities and towns, Renaissance
City planning
Power (Social sciences)
Sociology, Urban
Austria
Europe
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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