Description
Book SynopsisStijn Bussels studies the impact of art and architecture and published widely, in Art History, Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, Comparative Drama, and more. He has written two monographs: The Antwerp Entry of Prince Philip in 1549 (2012) and The Animated Image (2013).
Caroline van Eck's main research interests are art and architectural history and theory of the early modern period and the relation between rhetoric and the arts and architecture. Publications include Classical Rhetoric and the Arts and Art, Agency and Living Presence (2014). In 2016 she was elected to the first established Chair in Art History at Cambridge University, UK.
Bram Van Oostveldt has published widely on the relation between the theatre, the arts and architecture in the early modern Low Countries. He published a monograph on the influence of Diderot in Brussels theatre and on the performing arts in the Austrian Netherlands and now work
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction - Stijn Bussels, Caroline van Eck and Bram Van Oostveldt 2. The Palace of the Republic: Idea and Construction - Pieter Vlaardingerbroek 3. The Amsterdam Town Hall: The Triumphant Statement of a Successor State - Caroline van Eck 4. ‘Far More to Wonder, than to Fathom Completely’: One Hundred Poems Devoted to the Town Hall - Stijn Bussels, Caroline van Eck and Laura Plezier 5. The Portrait of a Building - Stijn Bussels 6. The Exercise of Power: The Caryatids of the Town Hall’s Tribunal - Frederik Knegtel 7. Jacob’s Trowels : The Construction of the Amsterdam Town Hall and Its Ceremonial Objects (1648–present) - Minou Schraven 8. Under Discussion: Eighteenth-Century Reactions to the Town Hall - Freek Schmidt Index
