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Courtly Culture in the Shadow of VersaillesHistory 323 / Jan. 9, 2013
The Holy Roman Empire in 1648
The Emperor and the Electors (Kurfürsten)
(Copper engraving by Abraham Aubry, Nuremberg, 1663/64)
A meeting of the Reichstag, 1640
Religious(“Confessional”)
divisions within the Holy Roman Empire,
1648
Versailles: the standard of luxury
Louis XIV is everywhere
The “Sun God” motif
The Hall of Mirrors
The opera housewithin Versailles
Outside, spectacular fountains
A grotto: fantasy playgrounds
Schönbrunn palace (late 17th Century; rebuilt in 18th)
“Roman” ruins
Clemens AugustArchbishop of Cologne, 1723-61
Clemens August’sterritories:
Archbishopricof Cologne
Bishoprics ofHildesheim,
Münster,Osnabrück, Paderborn,
andWestphalia
Augustusburg Palace, Brühl (outside Cologne)
Entrystaircase
Designed byBalthasarNeumann
(1687-1753)
Clemens August, everywhere you look
En route to the audience chamber
A (relatively modest) sitting room
Exquisitewallpaper
(gold-crustedleather)
The ballroom
The garden
The Archbishop goes hunting
Falkenlust Palace
Poppelsdorf Palace (in Bonn)
The Archbishop’s central residence (in Bonn)
The Hanseatic League at its peak
Lübeck’s Holstein Gate, built 1477
The dimensions of old Lübeck
Lübeck, market square
Lübeck, Rathaus
Lübeck – the“Buddenbrooks House”