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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Angela (Associate Professor of Art History Vanhaelen, Vanhaelen Angela
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.03.2022
• EAN: 9780271091402
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09140-2
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 254 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 1021 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; 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