Spectacle, Rhetoric and Power by Stijn Bussels is certainly a valuable, praiseworthy contribution to the growing literature on Netherlandish festivals. It offers a ...
Continue Reading →Those who go about on the Riva always expect four times the value for anything, for they are the falsest knaves that live ...
Continue Reading →The Low Countries was collectively one of the earliest and most heavily urbanised societies in European history. Present-day Belgium and the Netherlands still ...
Continue Reading →Pierre-Jean Mariette (7 May 1694 – 10 September 1774) was a collector of and dealer in old master prints, a renowned connoisseur, especially ...
Continue Reading →This dissertation tells the story of the collections of artists and artisans in early seventeenth-century Antwerp. Based on archival research of probate inventories, ...
Continue Reading →The paragone―the notion of competition and rivalry among the arts―has been a topic of debate for centuries. It erupted with great force in ...
Continue Reading →As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, ...
Continue Reading →For centuries, political dignitaries, scholars, and the nobility were the ones who usually had their portraits carved in stone. By the end of ...
Continue Reading →Based on a close study of Van Dyck’s Self-portrait with a Sunflower, this book examines the picture’s context in the symbolic discourses of ...
Continue Reading →Passion and Control explores Dutch architectural culture of the eighteenth century, revealing the central importance of architecture to society in this period and ...
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