A Review of J. B. Fischer von Erlach: Architecture as Theater in the Baroque Era

What do we mean when we speak of the “theatricality” of Baroque architecture? A reputation for exceptional performative agency grants building from this era a privileged role in broader discourses about art’s capacity to embody spectacle, but the operations and implications of this historical phenom...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elizabeth J. Petcu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2013-01-01
Series:Architectural Histories
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Online Access:http://journal.eahn.org/articles/19