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Berghahn Books Embodiments of Power Building Baroque Cities in Europe 2008 Edition by Gary B. Cohen, Franz A. J. Szabo
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. Table of contents :- List of IllustrationsIntroductionGary B. Cohen and Franz A. J. SzaboChapter 1. Embodiments of Power? Baroque architecture in the former Habsburg Residences of Graz and InnsbruckMark HengererChapter 2. Baroque Comes for the Archbishops: Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Johann Ernst Count Thun and Their Ideals of 'Modern Art' and ArchitectureRoswitha JuffingerChapter 3. Religious Art and the Formation of a Catholic Identity in Baroque PragueHoward LouthanChapter 4. Prague, Wroclaw and Vienna: Center and Periphery in Transformations of Baroque Culture?Jiri PesekChapter 5. Representation of the Court and Burghers in the Baroque Cities of the High Road: Krakow, Wroclaw and Dresden in a Historical ComparisonJan HarasimowiczChapter 6. From Protestant Fortress to Baroque Apotheosis: Dresden from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth CenturyBarbara MarxChapter 7. A Tale of Two Cities: Nuremberg and MunichJeffrey Chipps SmithChapter 8. Searching for the New Constantine: Early Modern Rome as a Spanish Imperial CityThomas DandeletChapter 9. The Zodiac in the Streets: Inscribing Buon Governo in Baroque NaplesJohn A. MarinoChapter 10. A Setting for Royal Authority: The Reshaping of Madrid, Sixteenth/Eighteenth CenturiesDavid RingroseNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex