Daniel Fulco, Ph.D. (2014), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is an independent scholar of 17th- and 18th-century European art. His research also engages with 19th-century painting and the exhibition of Islamic art in fin-de-siècle Europe.

• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations AbbreviationsIntroduction 1 The Aftermath of Military Conflict: A Rise in Princely Visual Culture (1648–1710) 2 War and International Politics: The Staircase Frescoes of Schloss Bensberg (1710–1714) 3 Dynasticism and Cultural Philanthropy: The Pictorial Program of Schloss Bensberg’s State Rooms (1710–1714) 4 The Blue Elector’s Aeneas: Jacopo Amigoni’s Images of War and Triumph at Schloss Schleissheim (1724–1726) 5 Ducal Power and Munificence: Carlo Innocenzo Carlone’s Frescoes in Schloss Ludwigsburg (1731–1733) 6 Prince-Episcopal Patronage and World Civilization: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s Apollo and the Four Continents in the Würzburg Residenz (1751–1753) Excursus: Italo-Germanic Artistic Exchange and Collaboration Epilogue Bibliography Index

"...Fulco has given us a very important book, isolating a small group of Venetian painters from their usual monographic contexts and discussing them instead in the larger context of grand German commissions; the four extensive enterprises he studies furnish a brilliant picture of court society in the eighteenth century."William L. Barcham, “A New Study on ‘Venezia altrove,’ Venetian Painters Working in German Lands in the Eighteenth Century,” Arte Veneta 73 (2016): 197-203.

Daniel Fulco, Ph.D. (2014), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is an independent scholar of 17th- and 18th-century European art. His research also engages with 19th-century painting and the exhibition of Islamic art in fin-de-siècle Europe.

• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations AbbreviationsIntroduction 1 The Aftermath of Military Conflict: A Rise in Princely Visual Culture (1648–1710) 2 War and International Politics: The Staircase Frescoes of Schloss Bensberg (1710–1714) 3 Dynasticism and Cultural Philanthropy: The Pictorial Program of Schloss Bensberg’s State Rooms (1710–1714) 4 The Blue Elector’s Aeneas: Jacopo Amigoni’s Images of War and Triumph at Schloss Schleissheim (1724–1726) 5 Ducal Power and Munificence: Carlo Innocenzo Carlone’s Frescoes in Schloss Ludwigsburg (1731–1733) 6 Prince-Episcopal Patronage and World Civilization: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s Apollo and the Four Continents in the Würzburg Residenz (1751–1753) Excursus: Italo-Germanic Artistic Exchange and Collaboration Epilogue Bibliography Index

"...Fulco has given us a very important book, isolating a small group of Venetian painters from their usual monographic contexts and discussing them instead in the larger context of grand German commissions; the four extensive enterprises he studies furnish a brilliant picture of court society in the eighteenth century."William L. Barcham, “A New Study on ‘Venezia altrove,’ Venetian Painters Working in German Lands in the Eighteenth Century,” Arte Veneta 73 (2016): 197-203.

Daniel Fulco, Ph.D. (2014), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is an independent scholar of 17th- and 18th-century European art. His research also engages with 19th-century painting and the exhibition of Islamic art in fin-de-siècle Europe.

• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations AbbreviationsIntroduction 1 The Aftermath of Military Conflict: A Rise in Princely Visual Culture (1648–1710) 2 War and International Politics: The Staircase Frescoes of Schloss Bensberg (1710–1714) 3 Dynasticism and Cultural Philanthropy: The Pictorial Program of Schloss Bensberg’s State Rooms (1710–1714) 4 The Blue Elector’s Aeneas: Jacopo Amigoni’s Images of War and Triumph at Schloss Schleissheim (1724–1726) 5 Ducal Power and Munificence: Carlo Innocenzo Carlone’s Frescoes in Schloss Ludwigsburg (1731–1733) 6 Prince-Episcopal Patronage and World Civilization: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s Apollo and the Four Continents in the Würzburg Residenz (1751–1753) Excursus: Italo-Germanic Artistic Exchange and Collaboration Epilogue Bibliography Index

"...Fulco has given us a very important book, isolating a small group of Venetian painters from their usual monographic contexts and discussing them instead in the larger context of grand German commissions; the four extensive enterprises he studies furnish a brilliant picture of court society in the eighteenth century."William L. Barcham, “A New Study on ‘Venezia altrove,’ Venetian Painters Working in German Lands in the Eighteenth Century,” Arte Veneta 73 (2016): 197-203.