Acknowledgements
Maps
Introduction
1: Prologue to the Renaissance: Art and Architecture of the Fifteenth Century in Russia and Hungary
2: Jagellonians and Habsburgs: Art of the Courts c. 1500
3: Art of the Towns: The Role of German-Speaking Artists c. 1500
4: The Renaissance in German-Speaking Lands: Durer, his Contemporaries, and Humanism
5: The Problem of the Reception of the Renaissance: The Reformation and Art116
6: Court, Castle and City in the Mid-Sixteenth Century
7: Kunst and the Kunstkammer: Collecting as a Phenomenon of the Renaissance in Central Europe
8: Princely Patronage of the Later Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: The Example and Impact of Art at the Court of Rudolf II
9: Art on the Eve of the Thirty Years' War: The Catholic Reformation and the Arts
10: Art and the Thirty Years' War
11: Art and Architecture after the Thirty Years' War
12: Polonia Victoriosa; Austria Gloriosa
13: Early Eighteenth-Century Architecture, Art and Collecting at the German Courts
Excursus: St Petersburg and Environs in the Eighteenth Century
14: Early Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture in the Bohemian Lands
15: South German Art and Architecture of the Early Eighteenth Century in its European Context
16: The Transformation of the Arts and Court from the Mid-eighteenth Century
17: Arts and Audiences of the Later Eighteenth Century: Painterly Pyrotechnics and its Alternatives
18: The Critical Response: Collecting, Criticism, the Enlightenment and the Visual Arts
Conclusion: The End of the Old Order
A Note on Notes and Bibliography
Notes
Index