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Samartism expressed for the Poles the idea that like other European nations they too had their origins in the peoples discussed by the authors of antiquity but their ancestors were even older than some of those claimed by other Europeans...hence they adopted what they regarded as a distinctive Sarmatian appearance...shaved heads with top knots & long robes
— Apr 10, 2023 08:11AM
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"The notion that art could serve ethical & moral ends, as well as the political goals of the state, plainly circulated in court circles, as the statements of Sonnenfels & Kaunitz suggest."
Late 18th century. Vienna.
— Apr 14, 2023 07:26AM
Late 18th century. Vienna.
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While the architecture of (the cathedral of) Vac (Hungary) possesses what might be called a progressive character in its neoclassical, it's patron, Christoph Migazzi, was an implacable for of Theresan reforms & became an antagonist of Joseph's efforts as well.
— Apr 14, 2023 06:52AM
Jan-Maat
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The more radical forms associated with Neoclassicism also spread to the Hungarian lands, where they were well recieved. & strikingly these often appeared in connection with the church.
— Apr 14, 2023 06:42AM
Jan-Maat
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Late 18th century allegemeines krankenhaus vienna: " the ideal forms utilised in the Vienna hospital seen fitting complements to the rationalised vision of society & religion promoted by the ruler.a work radical in form went along with radical ideas. We such works we begin to approach both some of the ideology & it's realisation in forms of our own are."
— Apr 13, 2023 10:55PM
Jan-Maat
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After the 30 years war about 70% of the land in Bohemia was owned by the church and the magnates while the number of noble families had halved & many of those were new to the region former soldiers in the emperors service like the Piccolomini.
— Apr 13, 2023 10:17AM
Jan-Maat
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In part because of the subsequent decline into provincial status of the truncated Czech lands after the mid 18th century much from the 17th & 18th centuries also survives: whole towns or city quarters like the mala strana in Prague remain from this era .
— Apr 12, 2023 01:02PM
Jan-Maat
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Since Augustus (the strong) was a failure as a general the Swinger provides a good argument for the thesis that princes win immortality through great buildings as well as through great victories. The building accordingly presented a political message in the typical baroque language of allegory.
— Apr 11, 2023 10:56PM
Jan-Maat
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The Atlases who hold up thecstairs in the Upper Belvedere (Vienna) may make a meaningful allusion in that they symbolise the support of the building but just as Atlas carries the world on his shoulders so the heroic Eugene is the Hercules who supports the empire.
— Apr 10, 2023 11:40AM
Jan-Maat
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Outside Vienna " a super Versailles was planned; the initial project for Schonbrunn overtrumps Versailles in size, in its location on a hill & in its stylistic references. Fischer here developed a new form of architecture derived not only from a reaction to forms used at Versailles but from one of the great alternatives...the art of Bernini
— Apr 10, 2023 11:31AM
Jan-Maat
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Along with other members of the szlachta Sobieski himself could be portrayed by sculptors & painters as a Roman leader in toga & battle armour yet unmistakably Sarmatian in his moustache & helmet...they befit a nation that in its rescue of Vienna could regard itself as virtuous Romans defending European civilisation.
— Apr 10, 2023 08:15AM
