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Embodiments of Power - Building Baroque Cities in Europe (Hardcover, illustrated edition) Loot Price: R3,802
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Embodiments of Power - Building Baroque Cities in Europe (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Gary B. Cohen, Franz A. J. Szabo

Embodiments of Power - Building Baroque Cities in Europe (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

Gary B. Cohen, Franz A. J. Szabo

Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

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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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Imprint: Berghahn Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies
Release date: July 2008
Editors: Gary B. Cohen • Franz A. J. Szabo
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Edition: illustrated edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-84545-433-3
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN: 1-84545-433-2
Barcode: 9781845454333

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