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Castles of the Weser Renaissance (Hardcover)
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Text in English & German. In the area along the Weser, there
was a great deal of building activity between the Reformation and
the Thirty Years War which was helped along by economic prosperity.
Little affected later by war or modernisation, high quality
Renaissance castles, aristocratic estates, town halls and civic
architecture have survived here in exceptional density. This facet
of Central European Renaissance architecture started to be
appreciated in the early 20th century. This led to the concept of
the Weser Renaissance, oriented above all towards formal and
regional history, and still popular today, like a kind of brand.
The present volume offers a representative selection of the
region's castles and palaces for the first time, dealing with both
princely residences and seats of the nobility. Architecture and
court culture are placed in a European context that goes beyond
older approaches based on the stylistic history and shows that
forms demonstrating princely prestige have qualities in common well
outside the region. Michael Bischoff's introductory text provides
an overview of Renaissance architecture in the Weser area. Uwe
Albrecht and Julian Jachmann explain the terminology and function
of princely architecture. Heiner Borggrefe analyses early
Renaissance architectural ornamentation, G Ulrich Grossmann covers
the topic after the mid-16th century. Thomas Fusenig writes on the
arts and sciences at the courts. Rolf Schoenlau discusses aspects
of building materials in terms of economic history. Hillert Ibbeken
deals with the sandstone that is most frequently used from a
geological point of view. The descriptive catalogue is by Katja
Schoene and Michael Bischoff.
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