Court Culture in Dresden

by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

Book Overview

This is the first cultural history of Baroque Dresden, the capital of Saxony and the most important Protestant territory in the Empire from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly shows how the art patronage of the Electors fits into the intellectual climate of the age and investigates its political and religious context. Lutheran church music and architecture, the influence of Italy, the cabinet of curiosities and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033398448X
• ISBN13: 9780333984482
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"