Baroque Sculpture in Germany and Central Europe (1600-1770)

Summary Around 1600, a new style of sculpture started to evolve and flourish in Central Europe and in the German-speaking lands. Dramatic wood and stone figures peopled the palaces, gardens and churches of Munich, Berlin, Dresden, D sseldorf, Vienna and Prague. These great works of art are little known outside Germany and Austria, partly because their colour and vivacity are so astoundingly different from the sculpture that was being produced in Italy, France and elsewhere in Northern Europe at that time. They are overpowering, and amongst the greatest works of art produced in Europe in the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking book explores their history and conveys their visual power. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction CHAPTER ONE Sculpture in South Germany 1600-40: Antecedents and International Currents CHAPTER TWO Small-Scale Sculpture and Patronage in Berlin and Vienna: 1630-1700 CHAPTER THREE The Court of Saxony in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries CHAPTER FOUR Munich and Bavaria in the Late Seventeenth and First Half of the Eighteenth Century CHAPTER FIVE The Mid-Eighteenth Century in Bavaria CHAPTER SIX Sculpture in Prague c. 1650-1750 CHAPTER SEVEN Sculpture in Vienna, Gurk, W rzburg and Trier. Ceramics. Appendix I: Biographical List of Artists Appendix II: List of Rulers and Patrons Bibliography Index