Embodiments of Power
Building Baroque Cities in Europe
- 320 pages
- English
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Embodiments of Power
Building Baroque Cities in Europe
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Title page-Embodiments of Power
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1-Embodiments of Power?
- Chapter 2-Baroque Comes for the Archbishops
- Chapter 3-Religious Art and the Formation of a Catholic Identity in Baroque Prague
- Chapter 4-Prague, Wroclaw, and Vienna
- Chapter 5-Representation of the Court and Burghers in the Baroque Cities of the High Road
- Chapter 6-From Protestant Fortress to Baroque Apotheosis
- Chapter 7-A Tale of Two Cities
- Chapter 8-Searching for the New Constantine
- Chapter 9-THe Zodiac in the Streets
- Chapter 10-A Setting for Royal Authority
- Bibliography
- Index