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In Exuberant Apotheoses: Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire, Daniel Fulco offers a vivid account of large-scale Italian frescoes that embellished eighteenth-century German baroque palaces and expressed noble patrons’ claim to princely power and political authority during the Enlightenment.
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During the first half of the 18th century, says Fulco, the principalities of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation witnessed a remarkable efflorescence of palace fresco painting executed largely by Italian artists. First in the Austrian and Czech lands during in the late 17th century, then spreading to Germany by 1700, Catholic and Protestant nobles of all ranks competed with one another to commission ever more lavish decorative schemes that expressed their claim to princely power and political authority. He analyzes how the artists drew on pictorial styles and iconographic programs from Italy and across Europe to embody their patrons' ambitions. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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