Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 576 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

1. "In this book, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann chronicles more than three hundred years of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Ukraine, Lithuania and western parts of the Russian Federation." "Massive in scale, the book is highly accessible and lavishly illustrated. The readability of the text and the entirely new insights it provides into three hundred years of Central European history make this a vital introduction to one of the least understood periods in the history of art."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative title

1. Court, cloister & city

Subject

1. Art > Europe, Central
2. Architecture > Europe, Central
3. Art > Histoire
4. Europe, Central > Civilization
5. Europe centrale > Civilisation

Contents

1. 1. Prologue to the Renaissance: Art and Architecture of the Fifteenth Century in Russia and Hungary -- 2. Jagellonians and Habsburgs: Art of the Courts c. 1500 -- 3. Art of the Towns: The Role of German-Speaking Artists c. 1500 -- 4. The Renaissance in German-Speaking Lands: Durer, his Contemporaries, and Humanism -- 5. The Problem of the Reception of the Renaissance: The Reformation and Art -- 6. Court, Castle and City in the Mid-Sixteenth Century -- 7. Kunst and the Kunstkammer: Collecting as a Phenomenon of the Renaissance in Central Europe -- 8. Princely Patronage of the Later Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: The Example and Impact of Art at the Court of Rudolf II -- 9. Art on the Eve of the Thirty Years' War: The Catholic Reformation and the Arts -- 10. Art and the Thirty Years' War -- 11. Art and Architecture after the Thirty Years' War -- 12. Polonia Victoriosa; Austria Gloriosa -- 13. Early Eighteenth-Century Architecture, Art and Collecting at the German Courts -- Excursus: St Petersburg and Environs in the Eighteenth Century -- 14. Early Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture in the Bohemian Lands -- 15. South German Art and Architecture of the Early Eighteenth Century in its European Context -- 16. The Transformation of the Arts and Court from the Mid-eighteenth Century -- 17. Arts and Audiences of the Later Eighteenth Century: Painterly Pyrotechnics and its Alternatives -- 18. The Critical Response: Collecting, Criticism, the Enlightenment and the Visual Arts.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-552) and index.