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Author : Katharine Fremantle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Baroque Town Hall of Amsterdam written by Katharine Fremantle and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004378219
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the various strategies by which appropriate pasts were construed in scholarship, literature, art, and architecture in order to create “national”, regional, or local identities in late medieval and early modern Europe. Because authority was based on lineage, political and territorial claims were underpinned by historical arguments, either true or otherwise. Literature, scholarship, art, and architecture were pivotal media that were used to give evidence of the impressive old lineage of states, regions, or families. These claims were related not only to classical antiquity but also to other periods that were regarded as antiquities, such as the Middle Ages, especially the chivalric age. The authors of this volume analyse these intriguing early modern constructions of “antiquity” and investigate the ways in which they were applied in political, intellectual and artistic contexts in the period of 1400–1700. Contributors include: Barbara Arciszewska, Bianca De Divitiis, Karl Enenkel, Hubertus Günther, Thomas Haye, Harald Hendrix, Stephan Hoppe, Marc Laureys, Frédérique Lemerle, Coen Maas, Anne-Françoise Morel, Kristoffer Neville, Konrad Ottenheym, Yves Pauwels, Christian Peters, Christoph Pieper, David Rijser, Bernd Roling, Nuno Senos, Paul Smith, Pieter Vlaardingerbroek, and Matthew Walker.
Author : Stijn Bussels
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350205354
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images written by Stijn Bussels and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Simon Schama
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520061477
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (614 download)
Download or read book The Embarrassment of Riches written by Simon Schama and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliantly inventive work, bestselling author Simon Schama explores the enigma of 17th-century Holland, a nation that attained an unprecedented level of affluence, yet lived in constant dread of being corrupted by prosperity. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, THE EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES throbs with life on every page. 314 photos & illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Marsha Keith Schuchard
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004124899
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Restoring the Temple of Vision written by Marsha Keith Schuchard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers the early Jewish, Scottish, and Stuart sources of "ancient" Cabalistic Freemasonry. Drawing on architectural, technological, political, and religious documents, it provides the historical context for Masonic traditions of visionary Temple building and mystical fraternity.
Author : Maryanne Cline Horowitz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004438033
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Bodies and Maps written by Maryanne Cline Horowitz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.
Author : Maarten Prak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009240609
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century written by Maarten Prak and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer are still household names, even though they died over three hundred years ago. In their lifetimes they witnessed the extraordinary consolidation of the newly independent Dutch Republic and its emergence as one of the richest nations on earth. As one contemporary wrote in 1673: the Dutch were 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. During the Dutch Golden Age, the arts blossomed and the country became a haven of religious tolerance. However, despite being self-proclaimed champions of freedom, the Dutch conquered communities in America, Africa and Asia and were heavily involved in both slavery and the slave trade on three continents. This substantially revised second edition of the leading textbook on the Dutch Republic includes a new chapter exploring slavery and its legacy, as well as a new chapter on language and literature.
Author : Arthur K. Wheelock (Jr.)
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 0874136407
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book The Public and Private in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age written by Arthur K. Wheelock (Jr.) and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays derives from a memorable interdisciplinary symposium. At issue were various fundamental questions about the nature of Dutch sixteenth-and seventeenth-century society that fall under three broad categories: civic culture, art, and religion. The fourteen papers presented in this volume offer a number of fascinating insights into these and other questions that, taken together, greatly enrich our perception and understanding of this rich and varied society.
Author : Joanna Banham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787585
Total Pages : 1469 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Interior Design written by Joanna Banham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 1469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870993569
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1984 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two volumes, including works by the three foremost seventeenth-century Flemish artists{u2014}Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens{u2014}as well as works by their contemporaries. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : John F. Bold
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826421415
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book English Architecture Public & Private written by John F. Bold and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together twenty-four original essays by colleagues, pupils and friends of Kerry Downes. The essays range from the late middle ages to the twentieth century but are concentrated on the period to the study of which Kerry Downes has contributed so much: that of Wren, Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor. Taken together these essays display the different approaches taken by architectural historians and the rich variety of English architecture.
Author : Judith Resnik
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300110960
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Representing Justice written by Judith Resnik and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remnant of the Renaissance : the transnational iconography of justice -- Civic space, the public square, and good governance -- Obedience : the judge as the loyal servant of the state -- Of eyes and ostriches -- Why eyes? : color, blindness, and impartiality -- Representations and abstractions : identity, politics, and rights -- From seventeenth-century town halls to twentieth-century courts -- A building and litigation boom in Twentieth-Century federal courts -- Late Twentieth-Century United States courts : monumentality, security, and eclectic imagery -- Monuments to the present and museums of the past : national courts (and prisons) -- Constructing regional rights -- Multi-jurisdictional premises : from peace to crimes -- From "rites" to "rights" -- Courts : in and out of sight, site, and cite -- An iconography for democratic adjudication.
Author : Sheila D. Muller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135495815
Total Pages : 1505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Dutch Art written by Sheila D. Muller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 1505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated feast for the eye and intellect Dutch Art explores developments in art, art history, art criticism, and cultural history of the Netherlands from the artists' workshops for the Utrecht Dom in 1475 to the latest movements of the 1990s. it is lavishly illustrated with 147 black-and-white photographs and 16 pages in full color. More than 100 internationally recognized scholars, museum professionals, artists, and art critics contributed signed essays to this monumental work, including historians, sociologists, and literary historians.
Author : Edward Tabri
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780889469495
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (694 download)
Download or read book Political Culture in the Early Northern Renaissance written by Edward Tabri and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : I.L. Leeb
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401024936
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Ideological Origins of the Batavian Revolution written by I.L. Leeb and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "age of the democratic revolution" 1 in the Dutch Republic cul minated in two revolutions : the aborted Patriot Revolution of 1787 and the more successful Batavian Revolution of 1795. For the United Provinces that age had begun after a series of crises in 1747 and resulted in the un precedented establishment of a single individual in the office of chief executive in all of the component provinces. The new form which emerged from the foreign and domestic threats of midcentury was that of a hereditary Stadhouder in the House of Orange. That family had served the Dutch state in varying capacities and with disparate consequences from its inception in the Revolt of the sixteenth century, through the triumphs of the Golden Era, to the less glorious days of the Periwig Period. The accession of William IV in 1747, his early death followed by a lengthy regency from 1752, and the accession of his son, William V, as "eminent head" of each province and chief officer of the Generality in 1766, all brought forth renewed scrutiny of the family and the offices of the Princes of Orange in the political life of the Republic. Those who were most critical of the new powers of the Stadhouderate and most desirous of reducing the dangers they saw threatening the state from the aggrandizement of that office, came to usurp the nearly exclusive use of the hoary title of Patriot.
Author : Anuradha Gobin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487503806
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Picturing Punishment written by Anuradha Gobin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together themes in the history of art, punishment, religion, and the history of medicine, Picturing Punishment provides new insights into the wider importance of the criminal to civic life.
Author : Jan Bloemendal
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004323422
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Politics and Aesthetics in European Baroque and Classicist Tragedy written by Jan Bloemendal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and Aesthetics in European Baroque and Classicist Tragedy is a volume of essays investigating European tragedy in the seventeenth century, comparing Shakespeare, Vondel, Gryphius, Racine and several other vernacular tragedians, together with consideration of neo-Latin dramas by Jesuits and other playwrights. To what extent were similar themes, plots, structures and styles elaborated? How is difference as well as similarity to be accounted for? European drama is beginning to be considered outside of the singular vernacular frameworks in which it has been largely confined (as instanced in the conferences and volumes of essays held in the Universities of Munich and Berlin 2010-12), but up-to-date secondary material is sparse and difficult to obtain. This volume intends to help remedy that deficit by addressing the drama in a full political, religious, legal and social context, and by considering the plays as interventions in those contexts. Contributors are: Christian Biet, Jan Bloemendal, Helmer J. Helmers, Blair Hoxby, Sarah M. Knight, Tatiana Korneeva, Frans-Willem Korsten, Joel B. Lande, Russell J. Leo, Howard B. Norland, Kirill Ospovat, James A. Parente, Jr., Freya Sierhuis, Nienke Tjoelker and Emily Vasiliauskas.
