Embodiments of power
Subtitle: building baroque cities in Europe
By: edited by Gary B. Cohen and Franz A.J. Szabo.
Contributors: Cohen, Gary B., 1948-; Szabo, Franz A. J.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781845454333
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Notes on contributors; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction: embodiments of power: building baroque cities in Austria and Europe / Gary B. Cohen and Franz A.J. Szabo; title: Embodiments of power? Baroque architecture in the former Habsburg residences of Graz and Innsbruck / Mark Hengerer; title: Baroque comes for the archbishops: Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Johann Ernst Count Thun, and their ideals of "modern art" and architecture / Roswitha Juffinger; title: Religious art and the formation of a catholic identity in baroque Prague / Howard Louthan; title: Prague, wroclaw, and Vienna: center and periphery in transformations of baroque culture? / J. Pelek; title: Representation of the court and burghers in the baroque cities of the high road: Krakaw, Wroclaw, and Dresden in a historical comparison / Jan Harasimowicz; title: From protestant fortress to baroque apotheosis: Dresden from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / Barbara Marx; title: A tale of two cities: Nuremberg and Munich / Jeffrey Chipps Smith; title: Searching for the new constantine: early modern Rome as a Spanish imperial city / Thomas Dandelet; title: The zodiac in the streets: inscribing "Buon Governo" in baroque Naples / John A. Marino; title: A setting for royal authority: the reshaping of Madrid, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries / David Ringrose; title: Bibliography.