EBERHARD HEMPEL

BAROQUE ART AND ARCHITECTUREIN CENTRAL EUROPE

GERMANY / AUSTRIA / SWITZERLAND / HUNGARY

CZECHOSLOVAKIA / POLAND

Painting and Sculpture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Architecture: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN BOOKS

CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES xi

LIST OF PLATES xiii

FOREWORD xxiii

MAPS XXV

Part One

Introduction

1. CHARACTERISTICS AND ANTECEDENTS I

2. SPECIAL CONDITIONS 21

Historical Background 21Economics, Arts, and Letters 23The Religious Foundations 25Artists - Guilds - Academies 27The Execution of Works of Art 28The Patrons - 30Ornament 31

Part Two

The Heroic Age 1600-39

3. ARCHITECTURE 35

Swabia 35Bavaria 3 8Austria 39Bohemia 41Hungary 42Franconia and Alsace 43Upper Saxony 45Lower Saxony 46Rhineland 47The North 48Poland - 49

4. SCULPTURE 51

5. PAINTING 5 7

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Part Three

The Years of Recovery after the Thirty Years War 1640-82

6. ARCHITECTURE 62

Austria 62Hungary 63

' Bohemia and Moravia 64Franconia 68Silesia 68Poland 69Upper Saxony 71

Lower Saxony 74Brandenburg 74South Germany 76Switzerland 78

7. SCULPTURE 79

8. PAINTING 8 2

Part Four

The Baroque Period 1683-1739

9. AUSTRIA 87

Architecture 87Sculpture 104Painting 113

10. HUNGARY 122

Architecture 122Painting 125

11. BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA 126

Architecture 126Sculpture 13 3Painting 137

12. POLAND 14°

13. SILESIA 143

Architecture 143Sculpture 145Painting 146

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14. FRANCONIA AND THE MIDDLE RHINE 147

Architecture 147Sculpture 160Painting I6L

15. VORARLBERG, SWITZERLAND, AND SWABIA 163

Architecture 163Sculpture 173Painting . 174

16. BAVARIA 177

Architecture 177Sculpture 186Painting 187

17. UPPER SAXONY 19°

Architecture 199Sculpture 200Painting 205

18. PRUSSIA 207

19. LOWER SAXONY AND THE LOWER RHINE 220

Architecture 220Sculpture 225

20. THE NORTHERN COAST 226

Architecture 226Painting 228

Part Five

Rococo and its End 1740-80

21. BAVARIA 229

Architecture 229Sculpture 238Painting 240

22. SWABIA AND SWITZERLAND 242

Architecture 242Sculpture 244Painting 246

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23. FRANCONIA 25O

Architecture 250Sculpture 258Painting 260

24. PRUSSIA 265

Architecture 265• Painting 273

Sculpture 275

25. SILESIA 276

26. WESTPHALIA 278

Architecture 278

Painting 280

27. NORTHERN GERMANY 281

28. UPPER SAXONY 283

Architecture 283Sculpture 286Painting 288

29. AUSTRIA 291

Architecture 291Sculpture 293Painting 296

30. HUNGARY 303

Architecture 303Painting 305Sculpture 305

31. POLAND 306

Architecture 306

Painting 310

NOTES • 313

BIBLIOGRAPHY 335

The Plates

INDEX 347