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Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: embodiments of power: building baroque cities in Austria and Europe / Gary B. Cohen and Franz A.J. Szabo
Embodiments of power? Baroque architecture in the former Habsburg residences of Graz and Innsbruck / Mark Hengerer
Baroque comes for the archbishops: Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Johann Ernst Count Thun, and their ideals of "modern art" and architecture / Roswitha Juffinger
Religious art and the formation of a Catholic identity in baroque Prague / Howard Louthan
Prague, Wrocław, and Vienna: center and periphery in transformations of baroque culture? / Jiří Pešek
Representation of the court and burghers in the baroque cities of the high road: Kraków, Wrocław, and Dresden in a historical comparison / Jan Harasimowicz
From Protestant fortress to baroque apotheosis: Dresden from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / Barbara Marx
A tale of two cities: Nuremberg and Munich / Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Searching for the new Constantine: early modern Rome as a Spanish imperial city / Thomas Dandelet
The zodiac in the streets: inscribing "Buon Governo" in baroque Naples / John A. Marino
A setting for royal authority: the reshaping of Madrid, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries / David Ringrose
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