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”