Central European and American perspectives on visual arts in early modern Europe
By: Ondřej Jakubec (ed.).
Contributors: Jakubec, Ondřej, 1976- editor
Edition: 1st edition.
Publisher: Barrister & Principal; Masaryk University
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Brno
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9788074850172; 9788021066106
Subjects: Art; Congresses
Notes: Proceedings from the conference "Parallel Inquiries: Art and Visual Culture in Early-Modern Central Europe," held in Brno on March 12, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann; title: Parallel contributions to research in the art and visual culture of early-modern central Europe: Brno - Princeton  -- Ondřej Jakubec; title: Illustrations of St. John's Book of Revelation in Slavonice  -- Zdeňka Míchalová; title: Dry bones and floating spirits? Neo-Platonism and the Schlosskapelle at Telč  -- Jennifer Morris; title: "A particularly artful artificio" : staging wonder in the Great Hall of Stuttgart's New Lusthaus  -- Elizabeth H. Petcu; title: "Small matters" : painting and perceiving Flemish and Spanish figures and their surroundings  -- Abigail D. Newman; title: "... auch die Künstlere sich in form einer bruderschafft zusammen setzen" : painters' confraternities in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Central Europe  -- Filip Komárek; title: Provost Otmar Konrad and his portraits : between art and self-representation  -- Zuzana Macurová; title: Znojmo and its surroundings : local center, periphery, or something completely different?  -- Tomáš Valeš; title: "... zue instenirung der Ingenieur Kunst resolviret" : the Military Engineering School and the Estates Academy in Olomouc at the turn of the 19th century -- Michal Konečný.