Exuberant Apotheoses : Visual Culture and Princely Power in the Age of Enlightenment.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Aftermath of Military Conflict: A Rise in Princely Visual Culture (1648-1710) -- Chapter 2 War and International Politics: The Staircase Frescoes of Schloss Bensberg (1710-1714) -- Chapter 3 Dynasticism and Cultural Philanthropy: The Pictorial Program of Schloss Bensberg's State Rooms (1710-1714) -- Chapter 4 The Blue Elector's Aeneas: Jacopo Amigoni's Images of War and Triumph at Schloss Schleissheim (1724-1726) -- Chapter 5 Ducal Power and Munificence: Carlo Innocenzo Carlone's Frescoes in Schloss Ludwigsburg (1731-1733) -- Chapter 6 Prince-Episcopal Patronage and World Civilization: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's Apollo and the Four Continents in the Würzburg Residenz (1751-1753) -- Excursus: Italo-Germanic Artistic Exchange and Collaboration -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

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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