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Titre(s) : The Amsterdam Town Hall in words and images [Texte imprimé] : constructing wonders / edited by Stijn Bussels, Caroline van Eck and Bram Van Oostveldt

Publication : London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xi, 243 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm

Collection : Bloomsbury visual arts

Lien à la collection : Bloomsbury visual arts  Voir toutes les notices liées

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references pages and index
"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"

Autre(s) auteur(s) : Bussels, Stijn P. M. (1978-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur
Eck, Caroline van (1959-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur
Oostveldt, Bram Van  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Sujet(s) : Van Campen, Jacob (1595?-1657) -- Critique et interprétation -- 18e siècle  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Architecture -- 18e siècle -- Amsterdam (Pays-Bas)  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Koninklijk paleis (Amsterdam)  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  724.16 (23e éd.) = Architecture - 1600-1699  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781350205338 (rel.)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb46830923f

Notice n° :  FRBNF46830923 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : The Palace of the Republic : Idea and Construction / Pieter Vlaardingerbroek / The Amsterdam Town Hall: The Triumphant Statement of a Successor State / Caroline van Eck ; 'Far More to Wonder, than to Fathom Completely' : A Hundred Poems Devoted to the Town Hall / Stijn Bussels, Caroline van Eck and Laura Plezier ; The Portrait of a Building / Stijn Bussels ; The Exercise of Power : The Caryatids of the Town Hall's Tribunal / Frederik Knegtel ; Jacob's Trowels. The Construction of the Amsterdam Town Hall and its Ceremonial Objects (1648-present) / Minou Schraven ; Under Discussion. Eighteenth-Century Reactions to the Town Hall / Freek Schmidt.