1. Courtly Culture in the Shadow of Versailles History 323 / Jan. 9, 2013

2. The Holy Roman Empire in 1648

3. The Emperor and the Electors (Kurfürsten) (Copper engraving by Abraham Aubry, Nuremberg, 1663/64)

4. A meeting of the Reichstag, 1640

5. Religious (“Confessional”) divisions within the Holy Roman Empire, 1648

6. Versailles: the standard of luxury

7. Louis XIV is everywhere

8. The “Sun God” motif

9. The Hall of Mirrors

10. The opera house within Versailles

11. Outside, spectacular fountains

12. A grotto: fantasy playgrounds

13. Schönbrunn palace (late 17th Century; rebuilt in 18th)

16. “Roman” ruins

17. Clemens August Archbishop of Cologne, 1723-61

18. Clemens August’s territories: Archbishopric of Cologne Bishoprics of Hildesheim, Münster, Osnabrück, Paderborn, and Westphalia

19. Augustusburg Palace, Brühl (outside Cologne)

21. Entry staircase Designed by Balthasar Neumann (1687-1753)

22. Clemens August, everywhere you look

23. En route to the audience chamber

24. A (relatively modest) sitting room

25. Exquisite wallpaper (gold-crusted leather)

26. The ballroom

27. The garden

28. The Archbishop goes hunting

29. Falkenlust Palace

30. Poppelsdorf Palace (in Bonn)

31. The Archbishop’s central residence (in Bonn)

32. The Hanseatic League at its peak

33. Lübeck’s Holstein Gate, built 1477

34. The dimensions of old Lübeck

35. Lübeck, market square

36. Lübeck, Rathaus

37. Lübeck – the “Buddenbrooks House”