The Amsterdam Town Hall in words and images : constructing wonders /

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 Citi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bussels, Stijn (Editor), Eck, Caroline van (Editor), Oostveldt, Bram van (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.
Subjects:	Koninklijk Paleis (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Campen, Jacob van, > 1595-1657 > Criticism and interpretation. Architecture and fame > Europe. Curiosities and wonders > Europe. Amsterdam (Netherlands) > Buildings, structures, etc.

Table of Contents:

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.