Exuberant Apotheoses: Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire

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Exuberant Apotheoses: Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire is written by Daniel Fulco and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004308059 (ISBN 10) and 9789004308053 (ISBN 13).

From the late seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries, large-scale Italian frescoes soared in popularity as nobles in the German principalities of the Holy Roman Empire constructed new palaces at an unprecedented rate. They competed with one another to produce lavish decorative schemes that expressed their claim to princely power and political authority. Whereas previous art historians have primarily focused on iconographic and stylistic issues and generally treated these programs as individual commissions of regional courts, this book places the works of art within their broad cultural and historical contexts during the Enlightenment. This monograph explains how rulers gradually shifted from emphasizing military heroism to stressing their cultivation of the arts and sciences, and addresses how expressing membership in a specifically European civilization emerged as an integral visual theme and a key ambition of the German nobility.