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Author Fulco, Daniel

Title Exuberant apotheoses- Italian frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire : visual culture and princely power in the Age of Enlightenment / by Daniel Fulco
Published Boston : Brill, 2016

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Series Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history.
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Aftermath of Military Conflict: A Rise in Princely Visual Culture (1648-1710); Chapter 2 War and International Politics: The Staircase Frescoes of Schloss Bensberg (1710-1714); Chapter 3 Dynasticism and Cultural Philanthropy: The Pictorial Program of Schloss Bensberg's State Rooms (1710-1714); Chapter 4 The Blue Elector's Aeneas: Jacopo Amigoni's Images of War and Triumph at Schloss Schleissheim (1724-1726)
Chapter 5 Ducal Power and Munificence: Carlo Innocenzo Carlone's Frescoes in Schloss Ludwigsburg (1731-1733)Chapter 6 Prince-Episcopal Patronage and World Civilization: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's Apollo and the Four Continents in the Würzburg Residenz (1751-1753); Excursus: Italo-Germanic Artistic Exchange and Collaboration; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mural painting and decoration, Italian -- Holy Roman Empire -- 17th century -- Themes, motives
Mural painting and decoration, Italian -- Holy Roman Empire -- 18th century -- Themes, motives
Art patronage -- Holy Roman Empire
Enlightenment -- Europe, German-speaking
ART -- Techniques -- General.
Art patronage
Enlightenment
Intellectual life
Mural painting and decoration, Italian -- Themes, motives
SUBJECT Holy Roman Empire -- Intellectual life
Subject German-speaking Europe
Europe -- Holy Roman Empire
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015050996
ISBN 9789004308053
9004308059