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The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images - Constructing Wonders (Paperback)
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The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images - Constructing Wonders (Paperback)
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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
facade, 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.
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