The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam - Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths

Explores the visual and cultural history of Amsterdam in the early modern era, focusing on the doolhoven: winding mazes behind pubs and taverns that featured pleasure gardens, waterworks, wax galleries, and automata.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Angela Vanhaelen is Professor of Art History at McGill University. She is the author of the award-winning book The Wake of Iconoclasm: Painting the Church in the Dutch Republic, also published by Penn State University Press.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Angela Vanhaelen, Angela (Associate Professor of Art History Vanhaelen, Vanhaelen Angela
• Verlag: University Presses
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 21.03.2023
• EAN: 9780271091600
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09160-0
• Abmessung: 203 mm x 254 mm x 17 mm
• Gewicht: 816 g
• Illustration: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Kunstgeschichte; Amsterdam, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, ART / European, ART / Sculpture & Installation, Netherlands, History of Art, Non-graphic art forms, baroque, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, ART / History / European / Baroque & Rococo