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Author | : Stijn Bussels |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2021-05-20 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1350205354 |
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The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655. Today we stand in awe confronted with the grand Classicist façade, the delightful horror of the sculptures in the Tribunal, and the magnificence of the huge Citizens' Hall. In the period of its construction, many artists and writers tried to capture the overwhelming impact of the building by, among other comparisons, relating it to the ancient Wonders of the World and by stressing its splendour, riches, and impressive scale. In doing so, they constructed the Town Hall as the ultimate wonder, thus offering a silent, but very powerful testimony to the power and position of the City of Amsterdam and its rulers as equals of the other European regimes. To fully understand these mechanisms of power, this book relates the Town Hall to other, impressive buildings of the same period-the palace of the Louvre, Saint Peter's Basilica, and Banqueting House-and their visual and textual representations. Thus, this book gives a broad audience of readers new insights into the agency of magnificent buildings. The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images does not restrict itself to a national scope or a purely architectural analysis, but clarifies how artists and writers all over Europe presented buildings as wonders of the world. This book is pioneering in its analysis of seventeenth and eighteenth-century paintings, prints, drawings, poems, and travel accounts and offers a new understanding of how the wondrous character of these grand buildings was constructed.
Author | : Stijn Bussels |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2023-11-21 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1003803490 |
Download The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, political grandeur, extreme violence, and extraordinary artifacts, the authors demonstrate how viewers were confronted with the sublime, which evoked in them a combination of contrasting feelings of awe and fear, attraction and repulsion. In studying seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture through the lens of notions of the sublime, we can move beyond the traditional and still widespread views on Dutch art as the ultimate representation of everyday life and the expression of a prosperous society in terms of calmness, neatness, and order. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, architectural history, and cultural history.
Author | : Stijn Bussels |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2024-01-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004682643 |
Download Imago and Contemplatio in the Visual Arts and Literature (1400–1700) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume contains twenty-four essays, which, in their subjects and methodology, pay tribute to the scholarship of Walter S. Melion. The contributions are grouped under three categories: “Devotion,” “Art and Image Theory,” and “Vision and Contemplation.” The Devotion section addresses votive practices, theological theory and polemic literature. The Art and Image Theory section focuses on Jesuit image theory, the reflexive dimension of works, and artists’ reflections on the function of images. Finally, the Vision and Contemplation section discusses the ‘early modern eye’ as a tool for thoughtful, prolonged looking to ascertain visual wit, deception, self-assessment and friendship, sacred and profane allegories.
Author | : Michael Bryan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 804 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Engravers |
ISBN | : |
Download Dictionary of Painters and Engravers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ingrid Nolet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Art, Dutch |
ISBN | : 9789072080547 |
Download Hidden Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Heroes of a golden age, gods and Titans, wise poets and foolish kings, powerful city maids, goddesses of the hunt or love, gods of trade or war. These are no ordinary residents of a town hall or a palace. In silence they tell their stories to those who want to hear. These are wise lessons from bygone ages, but still relevant to whomever recognizes them. Architect Jacob van Campen used images in marble and paint as a tool to tell two story lines to both the visitor and user of the building. Firstly, the glorification of Amsterdam as a center of the world. On the other hand, the symbolism of the Town Hall, which as the seat of order and authority needed to encourage good governance and good citizenship. The result is a building that can be read like a book. Exhibition: Royal Palace Amsterdam, The Netherlands (03.07.-27.09.2015)
Author | : Klaas van Berkel |
Publisher | : Uitgeverij Verloren |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : 9087044674 |
Download Petrus Camper in context Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
‘A meteor of spirit, science, talent and activity’ – thus Goethe described Petrus Camper (1722-1789). Goethe’s words contain all the elements that make Camper such a fascinating figure in the history of science and arts in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic. This volume sheds new light on Camper’s versatility, engagement, and charisma in all fields and disciplines he ventured into and published on. It not only addresses his scientific activities, findings, and opinions, but also delves into his careers at the universities of Franeker, Amsterdam, and Groningen, his travels, relationships, friendships, and feuds, as well as the ways he communicated his wide-ranging research. Eleven case studies illustrate Camper’s views on eighteenth-century life and society, which motivated not just his scientific, but also his political, societal, literary, and artistic practice. Together they amount to a plea for an integration of all aspects of his scholarly life and persona.
Author | : United States. Central Intelligence Agency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 766 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : World politics |
ISBN | : |
Download Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Gijs Versteegen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2020-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004436804 |
Download Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe.
Author | : Beverly Swerling |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2011-05-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743218450 |
Download City of Dreams Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A sweeping epic of two families—one Dutch, one English—from the time when New Amsterdam was a raw and rowdy settlement, to the triumph of the Revolution, when New York became a new nation’s city of dreams. In 1661, Lucas Turner, a barber surgeon, and his sister, Sally, an apothecary, stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven weeks at sea. Bound to each other by blood and necessity, they aim to make a fresh start in the rough and rowdy Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam; but soon lust, betrayal, and murder will make them mortal enemies. In their struggle to survive in the New World, Lucas and Sally make choices that will burden their descendants with a legacy of secrets and retribution, and create a heritage that sets cousin against cousin, physician against surgeon, and, ultimately, patriot against Tory. In what will be the greatest city in the New World, the fortunes of these two families are inextricably entwined by blood and fire in an unforgettable American saga of pride and ambition, love and hate, and the becoming of the dream that is New York City.
Author | : Michael Bryan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Engravers |
ISBN | : |
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