| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 283 p. : ill., maps. |
| Series |
Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 10 |
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Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 10.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-276) and index. |
| Contents |
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, Wrocaw, and Vienna: center and periphery in transformations of baroque culture? / Jiri Pesek -- Representation of the court and burghers in the baroque cities of the high road: Krakow, Wrocaw, 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
City planning -- Europe -- History.
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Power (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History.
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Power (Social sciences) -- Austria -- History.
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Architecture, Baroque -- Europe.
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Architecture, Baroque -- Austria.
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Cities and towns, Renaissance.
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Sociology, Urban -- Europe.
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Sociology, Urban -- Austria.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cohen, Gary B., 1948-
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Szabo, Franz A. J.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781845454333 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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1845454332 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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