Court, Cloister and City : The Art and Culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800

A heavily-illustrated guide to the art and culture of Central Europe between the years 1450 and 1800, this text looks at Central Europe as a cultural entity. It chronicles more than 300 years of painting, sculpture and architecture in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, the Ukraine, Lithuania and western parts of the Russian Federation. It surveys a remarkable range of artifacts from the coming of the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.