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