J.B. Fischer von Erlach : architecture as theater in the Baroque era / photographs by Mark Richard Ashton ; text by Esther Gordon Dotson.

Main entry:

Dotson, Esther Gordon, 1918-2009.

Title & Author:

J.B. Fischer von Erlach : architecture as theater in the Baroque era / photographs by Mark Richard Ashton ; text by Esther Gordon Dotson.

Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2012.

Description:

ix, 170 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Architecture as theater -- Becoming an imperial architect : training and early work -- Another ruler, another city : designs for Salzburg -- Imperial Vienna : patronage of the courtiers -- Imperial Vienna : the emperor as patron -- A learned architect : the designer as scholar and author -- Epilogue. Architecture and motion.

Summary:

Though little known in the English-speaking world, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723) was one of the most important and influential European baroque architects. The buildings that he designed for the emperor of Austria and his courtiers reveal an element of theatricality -- an element that author Esther Gordon Dotson probes in this book. In his architectural designs, Fischer incorporated devices from ceremonial pageantry and scene design, controlled lighting effects, and a sense of dramatic progression in approaching and moving through a building. The author identifies these various elements in her close reading of Fischer's structures, and new photographs, taken by Mark Richard Ashton, bring them to life on the printed page.

ISBN:

9780300166682 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300166680 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard, 1656-1723 Criticism and interpretation.
Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard.
Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard Criticism and interpretation.
Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard, 1656-1723
Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard 1656-1723
Fischer von Erlach, Joseph E.
Architektur.
Inszenierung.
Ausstattung.
Architectes Autriche Biographies.
Architecture baroque Autriche.
Salzburg (Bistum)
Wien.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Ashton, Mark Richard, 1939-
Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard, 1656-1723.

Architecture as theater in the Baroque era

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277347
Call No.: BIB 212140
Status: Available

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