Court Culture in Dresden

Watanabe-O'Kelly, H.

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 the culture of collecting, alchemy, mining and early technology, official image-making and court theatre are some of the wealth of colourful subjects dealt with during the period 1553 to 1733.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2002-03-07

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333984482

DOI: 10.1057/9780230514492

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 310