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

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

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

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

by Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann
$88.20
$88.20

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 surveys a remarkable range of art and artifacts created from the coming of the Renaissance through to the Enlightenment.

"Kaufmann throws considerable light on one of the more neglected and least understood periods in art history."--Philadelphia Inquirer

"A wonderful book which does justice both to a formal analysis of the art and to an explanation of broader political and economic forces at work."--Virginia Quarterly Review

"Important and stimulating, Kaufmann's study examines the cultural legacy of a region too little known and understood."--Choice

"Peaks of the creative heritage which [Kaufmann] describes reserve their message--and their surprises--for those who visit them in situ. But invest in Kaufmann's volume before you go."--R. J. W. Evans, New York Review of Books
ISBN9780226427300
Author Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
GenreHistory and Arts
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 1997
LanguageENG- English
Pages576
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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

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

By Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann

About Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann is a professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Among his many books are Court, Cloister, and City and The School of Prague, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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