Research Catalog

Title

Bellum & Artes : Central Europe in the Thirty Years' War / Claudia Brink, Susanne Jaeger, Marius Winzeler ; translation, Geraldine Schuckelt.

Publication

• Dresden : Sandstein Verlag, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brink, Claudia
• Jaeger, Susanne
• Winzeler, Marius
• Schuckelt, Geraldine

Description

544 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits; 29 cm

Summary

The Thirty Years' War is one of the great traumas of European history. Yet even in this time of crisis--when starvation, death and disease brought immense suffering and economic hardship--art production did not come to a standstill. Works of art continued to serve as representations of power, to be exchanged as diplomatic gifts, to document military actions, and to urge peace. As coveted items of booty, they often changed hands multiple times. Forty-two authors from eight countries elucidate the historical, religious-historical and cultural-historical aspects of the Thirty Years' War from a wide range of perspectives. This volume of essays is a mirror of European diversity. It emphasises the importance of our shared cultural heritage and draws parallels with present-day issues.

Alternative Title

• Bellum et artes
• Central Europe in the Thirty Years' War

Subject

• 1517-1699
• Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 > Art and the war > Exhibitions
• Art, European > 17th century > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
• War in art > Exhibitions
• Art, European > Themes, motives
• War in art
• Europe > History > 1517-1648 > Exhibitions
• Europe

Genre/Form

• Art.
• History.

Note

• "Published by the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and The National Gallery Prague."
• Catalog of an international exhibition.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 504-528) and index

Contents

Introduction / Claudia Brink, Susanne Jaeger, Marius Winzeler -- Artes ante bellum : the arts before the Thirty Years' War in Central Europe and beyond / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann -- On the confessional history of Central Europe : the emergence of modern confessional churches / Heinz Schilling -- The Thirty Years' War as a European conflict with global implications / Matthias Pfaffenbichler -- The Thirty Years' War as a construction site for peace / Johannes Burkhardt -- Battles and depictions of battles / Olivier Chaline -- The horrors of war in seventeenth-century art and literature / Christoph Orth -- Between Mars and the Muses : artistic self-assertion in times of war / Claudia Brink -- Places & regions -- Protagonists & their artistic representations -- Artists in times of war -- Works of art. Their role. Their itenaries -- Outlook -- Appendix.

Call Number

JQF 22-1018

ISBN

• 9783954986125
• 3954986124

OCLC

1281188255

Title

Bellum & Artes : Central Europe in the Thirty Years' War / Claudia Brink, Susanne Jaeger, Marius Winzeler ; translation, Geraldine Schuckelt.

Publisher

Dresden : Sandstein Verlag, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 504-528) and index

Chronological Term

1517-1699

Added Author

Brink, Claudia, editor.

Jaeger, Susanne, editor.

Winzeler, Marius, editor.

Schuckelt, Geraldine, translator.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-1018