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The language of continent allegories in Baroque Central Europe, edited by Wolfgang Schmale, Marion Romberg and Josef Köstlbauer

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The language of continent allegories in Baroque Central Europe

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edited by Wolfgang Schmale, Marion Romberg and Josef Köstlbauer

Geschichte / Franz Steiner Verlag

The iconography of the four continents dates back to 16th and early 17th centuries, at a time when Europe's vision of the world was changed dramatically by discovery and conquest of the New World. Its peak of dissemination was reached in the 18th century. The late Baroque claims a special role for two reasons: The first is the large number of reproductions and applications during this period, the second is the multifaceted significance these allegories enjoyed. They could be inserted into religious and liturgical settings as well as into political language or that of the history of civilization and mankind. "Language" in this sense means that the continent allegories were less the object of an art historical interpretation than being considered a formative part of religious, liturgical, political, historical and other discourses. As pictorial language they were interwoven with text, dogmas, narratives and stereotypes. Thus the authors of this volume inquire what the allegories of the four continents actually meant to people living in the Baroque age. --, Provided by publisher

Continent allegories in the Baroque Age : an introduction / Wolfgang Schmale, Marion Romberg, Josef Köstlbauer -- Contintent allegories and history of mankind in the 18th century / Wolfgang Schmale -- Baroque building sites : links between culture and economy in 18th-century Germany / Britta Kägler -- Seriality, Symmetry, and double coding : thoughts on the mediality of Baroque allegories of the four continents from Austria and South Tyrol / Josef Köstlbauer -- Using the past for the Church's "present" and "future" : the remembrance of Catholic Japan in drama and art in the southern German-speaking area / Haruka Oba -- Data-based analysis of the continent allegories in southern Germany with special focus on the Prince-bishopric of Augsburg / Marion Romberg -- Illud vero diligenter doceant episcopi ... : Allegories of the four continents in the context of the Catholic teaching of laymen / Marion Romberg -- Personifications of the four continents in Polish art of the late 17th and 18th century : an outline of the problem / Christine Moisan-Jablonski -- Depictions of the four continents in religious and secular art with regard to Warsaw's cultural heritage / Katarzyna Ponińska -- From conversion to adoration : the depiction of the four continents in prints and Baroque paintings in Jesuit buildings in the German and Bohemian provinces / Katrin Sterba -- A global context for communication strategies in the Jesuit colleges of Klagenfurt and Gorizia (17th-18th centuries) / Claudio Ferlan