Court, Cloister, and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800

by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and Thomas Dacosta Kaufman

Book Overview

The collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe opened the doors to cultural treasures that for decades had been hidden, forgotten, or misinterpreted. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann looks at Central Europe as a cultural entity while chronicling 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. Kaufmann...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226427293
• ISBN13: 9780226427294
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.6"