The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images: Constructing Wonders

ISBN-13: 9781350205376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str.

Stijn Bussels; Caroline Van Eck; Bram Van Oostveldt

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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