Exuberant apotheoses- Italian frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire : visual culture and princely power in the Age of Enlightenment /
From the late seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries, large-scale Italian frescoes soared in popularity as nobles in the German principalities of the Holy Roman Empire constructed new palaces at an unprecedented rate. They competed with one another to produce lavish decorative schemes that...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Brill,
2016.
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| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history.
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| Summary: | From the late seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries, large-scale Italian frescoes soared in popularity as nobles in the German principalities of the Holy Roman Empire constructed new palaces at an unprecedented rate. They competed with one another to produce lavish decorative schemes that expressed their claim to princely power and political authority. Whereas previous art historians have primarily focused on iconographic and stylistic issues and generally treated these programs as individual commissions of regional courts, this book places the works of art within their broad cultural and historical contexts during the Enlightenment. This monograph explains how rulers gradually shifted from emphasizing military heroism to stressing their cultivation of the arts and sciences, and addresses how expressing membership in a specifically European civilization emerged as an integral visual theme and a key ambition of the German nobility. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004308053 9004308059 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |