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The Dutch Garden in the Seventeenth Century

Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884021872
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Dutch Garden in the Seventeenth Century written by John Dixon Hunt and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988-89 the three hundredth anniversary of an important historical event, the ascension of William and Mary to the thrones of England and Scotland, was celebrated in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The symposium on Dutch garden art held at Dumbarton Oaks in May 1988 was the only scholarly event during the anniversary year that focused wholly upon gardens. This wide-ranging collection of essays charts the history, scope, and spread of Dutch garden art during the seventeenth century. A group of scholars, mostly Dutch, surveys what has been called the "golden age" of Dutch garden design. Essays discuss the political context of William's building and gardening activities at his palace of Het Loo in the Netherlands; the development of a distinctively Dutch garden art during the seventeenth century; country house poetry; and specific estates and their gardens, such as those of Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen at Cleves or Sorgvliet, the estate of Hans Willem Bentinck, later the Earl of Portland. Other contributions concern typical Dutch planting and layouts, with a focus upon Jan van der Green's much-circulated Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier; the designs of Daniel Marot, the Huguenot refugee from France, who worked for William III in both the Netherlands and England; and theattitudes of the English toward Dutch gardening as it was observed in practice and mythologized through the distorting lens of national cooperation and rivalries.

Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004186719
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conviction that Nature was God's second revelation played a crucial role in early modern Dutch culture. This book offers a fascinating account on how Dutch intellectuals contemplated, investigated, represented and collected natural objects, and how the notion of the 'Book of Nature' was transformed.

Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt

Author : Boudewijn Bakker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135156112X
Total Pages : 949 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt by : Boudewijn Bakker

Download or read book Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt written by Boudewijn Bakker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 949 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a corrective to the common scholarly characterization of seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting as modern, realistic and secularized, Boudewijn Bakker here explores the long history and purpose of landscape in Netherlandish painting. In Bakker's view, early Netherlandish as well as seventeenth-century Dutch painting can be understood only in the context of the intellectual climate of the day. Concentrating on landscape painting as the careful depiction of the visible world, Bakker's analysis takes in the thought of figures seldom consulted by traditional art historians, such as the fifteenth-century philosopher Dionysius the Carthusian, the sixteenth-century religious reformer John Calvin, the geographer Abraham Ortelius and the seventeenth-century poet Constantijn Huygens. Probing their conception of nature as 'the first Book of God' and art as its representation, Bakker identifies a world view that has its roots in the traditional Christian perceptions of God and creation. Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt imposes a new layer of interpretation on the richly varied landscapes of the great masters. In so doing it adds a new dimension to the insights offered by modern art-historical research. Further, Bakker's explorations of early modern art and literature provide essential background for any student of European intellectual history.

The Royalist Republic

Author : Helmer J. Helmers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107087619
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Royalist Republic written by Helmer J. Helmers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the impact of the English Civil Wars and the resulting support for the royalist cause in the Dutch Republic.

NAWCC Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book NAWCC Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dutch Light

Author : Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509893326
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Dutch Light written by Hugh Aldersey-Williams and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Enchanting to the point of escapism.' – Simon Ings, Spectator 'Hugh Aldersey-Williams rescues his subject from Newton's shadow, where he was been unjustly confined for over three hundred years.' – Literary Review Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens’s remarkable life and career, but it is also nothing less than the story of the birth of modern science as we know it. Europe’s greatest scientist during the latter half of the seventeenth century, Christiaan Huygens was a true polymath. A towering figure in the fields of astronomy, optics, mechanics, and mathematics, many of his innovations in methodology, optics and timekeeping remain in use to this day. Among his many achievements, he developed the theory of light travelling as a wave, invented the mechanism for the pendulum clock, and discovered the rings of Saturn – via a telescope that he had also invented. A man of fashion and culture, Christiaan came from a family of multi-talented individuals whose circle included not only leading figures of Dutch society, but also artists and philosophers such as Rembrandt, Locke and Descartes. The Huygens family and their contemporaries would become key actors in the Dutch Golden Age, a time of unprecedented intellectual expansion within the Netherlands. Set against a backdrop of worldwide religious and political turmoil, this febrile period was defined by danger, luxury and leisure, but also curiosity, purpose, and tremendous possibility. Following in Huygens’s footsteps as he navigates this era while shuttling opportunistically between countries and scientific disciplines, Hugh Aldersey-Williams builds a compelling case to reclaim Huygens from the margins of history and acknowledge him as one of our most important and influential scientific figures.

Architecture and Elite Culture in the United Provinces, England and Ireland, 1500-1700

Author : Hanneke Ronnes
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 908555361X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Elite Culture in the United Provinces, England and Ireland, 1500-1700 written by Hanneke Ronnes and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to elucidate concepts of castle in the Netherlands, England and Ireland in both past and present times. The first part of the book examines current, respectively, academic, national and personal appropriations of 'castle'; the second part moves into the past, juxtaposing elite culture and the spatial organisation of 16th and 17th century domestic architecture.

From Earth-Bound to Satellite

Author : Alison D. Morrison-Low
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004211500
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book From Earth-Bound to Satellite written by Alison D. Morrison-Low and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the anniversary of the telescope’s invention, these collected essays highlight a number of significant historical episodes concerning this well-loved instrument, which has played a crucial role in Man’s thinking about his position – literally and philosophically – in the universe.

Dutch Houses and Castles

Author : Jorge Guillermo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Dutch Houses and Castles written by Jorge Guillermo and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geschiedenis, architectuur, interieur en tuinaanleg van 36 Nederlandse kastelen en landhuizen.

Personal Recollections of Distinguished Generals

Author : William Franklin Gore Shanks
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465518118
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Personal Recollections of Distinguished Generals written by William Franklin Gore Shanks and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this volume is to make more familiar to the general public the actual characters of some of our great military leaders during the late war. I have attempted to portray them not as on parade, but in undress uniform, and to illustrate not only their great military qualities, but more particularly their mental peculiarities and characteristics. These pages will be found to contain many facts about some of the great battles which official reports have left untold, with such recollections of our generals as history proper will not perhaps condescend to record, and to embrace singular facts about great campaigns and strange stories of great men. The portraits are freely drawn. They are made from actual studies, if not special sittings, and while taking care to give every beauty, I have omitted none of the deformities or blemishes of my subjects, though I have told in full detail their virtues, and have touched on their faults and vices lightly. I have avoided alike extreme extravagance in praise or censure. Still there is enough shadow to the pictures to give the necessary, if not agreeable contrast to the lights. The reader must not, however, mistake the stand-point from which I have written. Distance, unfortunately for truth, lends enchantment not only to objects, but to men. The atmosphere of Olympus produces many phantasmagoria, and the great at a distance exist to our eyes in a sort of mirage. The philosophy of perspective as applied to natural objects is reversed when applied to mankind, and there are very few men who do not grow smaller as one approaches them. Most men are pyramidal in shape only, not proportions. "No man is a hero to his valet." Even Jupiter was ridiculous at times to Homer. Very few generals have appeared great to the war correspondents; and though very few of the latter can claim to be descendants of Diogenes, they can assert, with equal positiveness, that very few of the generals have been Alexanders, and that "the very sun shines through them." I have written under the disadvantage of being too near the objects drawn; and those who do not know the subjects as well may imagine I have made them undeservedly Liliputian in dimensions. Writing contemporaneous history is the most thankless of tasks, and I discover also one of the least independent of labors. Still I have not written with a goose-quill, and there has been some gall in my ink, yet I do not think I have any thing in the ensuing chapters to blot. I do not think I have done any man injustice. I have written many sentences and made many assertions which will doubtless be termed strong, but in writing these I am only the amanuensis of truth; and I write with the firm belief that "historical truth should be only less sacred than religious truth."

Huygens: The Man Behind the Principle

Author : C. D. Andriesse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521850902
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Huygens: The Man Behind the Principle written by C. D. Andriesse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huygens: The Man Behind the Principle is the story of the great seventeenth-century Dutch mathematician and physicist, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695). As the first complete biography ever written this book describes in detail how Huygens arrived at discoveries and inventions that are often wrongly ascribed to Newton. Huygens played a key role in the 'scientific revolution', and the Huygens Principle on the wave theory of light helped establish his reputation. The discovery of Saturn's rings and the invention of the pendulum clock made him so famous that he was invited to be the first director of the French Academy of Science, but his life as director teetered on the edge of powerlessness. Despite Huygens' many achievements no complete biography has previously been published in English. This book gives scientists and historians the opportunity to learn more about all aspects of Huygens' life while bringing his story to a wider audience.

Dutch Literature in the Age of Rembrandt

Author : Maria A. Schenkeveld
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027222169
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Dutch Literature in the Age of Rembrandt written by Maria A. Schenkeveld and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inleidend overzicht, met name aan de hand van thema's, van de Nederlandse literatuurgeschiedenis van de 17e eeuw.

Vitaulium. Hofwyck, hofstede van den Heere van Zuylichen, etc. [Described by him in verse.]

Author : Konstantyn HUYGENS (Heer van Zuylichem, the Elder.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Vitaulium. Hofwyck, hofstede van den Heere van Zuylichen, etc. [Described by him in verse.] written by Konstantyn HUYGENS (Heer van Zuylichem, the Elder.) and published by . This book was released on 1653 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Milton, Marvell, and the Dutch Republic

Author : Esther van Raamsdonk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000171868
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Milton, Marvell, and the Dutch Republic written by Esther van Raamsdonk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tumultuous relations between Britain and the United Provinces in the seventeenth century provide the backdrop to this book, striking new ground as its transnational framework permits an overview of their intertwined culture, politics, trade, intellectual exchange, and religious debate. How the English and Dutch understood each other is coloured by these factors, and revealed through an imagological method, charting the myriad uses of stereotypes in different genres and contexts. The discussion is anchored in a specific context through the lives and works of John Milton and Andrew Marvell, whose complex connections with Dutch people and society are investigated. As well as turning overdue attention to neglected Dutch writers of the period, the book creates new possibilities for reading Milton and Marvell as not merely English, but European poets.

Spinoza, Life and Legacy

Author : Jonathan I. Israel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192599437
Total Pages : 1336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Spinoza, Life and Legacy written by Jonathan I. Israel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own time and in the years following his death. The boldest and most unsettling of the major early modern philosophers, Spinoza, had a much greater, if often concealed, impact on the international intellectual scene and on the early Enlightenment than philosophers, historians, and political theorists have conventionally tended to recognize. Europe-wide efforts to prevent the reading public and university students learning about Spinoza, the man and his work, in the years immediately after his death in 1677, dominated much of his early reception owing to the revolutionary implications of his thought for philosophy, religion, practical ethics and lifestyle, Bible criticism, and political theory. Nevertheless, contrary to what has sometimes been maintained, his general impact was immediate, very widespread, and profound. One of the main objectives of the book is to show how early and how deeply Leibniz, Bayle, Arnauld, Henry More, Anne Conway, Richard Baxter, Robert Boyle, Henry Oldenburg, Pierre-Daniel Huet, Richard Simon, and Nicholas Steno, among many others, were affected by and led to wrestle with his principal ideas. There have been surprisingly few biographies of Spinoza, given his fundamental importance in intellectual history and history of philosophy, Bible criticism, and political thought. Jonathan I. Israel has written a biography which provides more detail and context about Spinoza's life, family, writings, circle of friends, highly unusual career and networking, and early reception than its predecessors. Weaving the circumstances of his life and thought into a detailed biography has also led to several notable instances of nuancing or revising our notions of how to interpret certain of his assertions and philosophical claims, and how to understand the complex international reaction to his work during his life-time and in the years immediately following his death.

Courtly Gardens in Holland 1600-1650

Author : Vanessa Bezemer Sellers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Courtly Gardens in Holland 1600-1650 written by Vanessa Bezemer Sellers and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New insight into garden design in Northern Europe in the 17th century. A wealth of hitherto unknown archival documentation from the period has resulted in a step by step reconstruction of various lost domains of the Orange family.

Dutch Literature in the Age of Rembrandt

Author : Maria A. Schenkeveld-Van der Dussen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027222142
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Dutch Literature in the Age of Rembrandt written by Maria A. Schenkeveld-Van der Dussen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inleidend overzicht, met name aan de hand van thema's, van de Nederlandse literatuurgeschiedenis van de 17e eeuw.