TY  - GEN
T1  - The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam : Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths
A1  - Vanhaelen, Angela
LA  - English
PP  - University Park, PA
PB  - Penn State University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1380732010
AB  - This book opens a window onto a fascinating and understudied aspect of the visual, material, intellectual, and cultural history of seventeenth-century Amsterdam: the role played by its inns and taverns, specifically the doolhoven.Doolhoven were a type of labyrinth unique to early modern Amsterdam. Offering guest lodgings, these licensed public houses also housed remarkable displays of artwork in their gardens and galleries. The main attractions were inventive displays of moving mechanical figures (automata) and a famed set of waxwork portraits of the rulers of Protestant Europe. Publicized as the most innovative artworks on display in Amsterdam, the doolhoven exhibits presented the mercantile city as a global center of artistic and technological advancement. This evocative tour through the doolhoven pub gardens--where drinking, entertainment, and the acquisition of knowledge mingled in encounters with lively displays of animated artifacts--shows that the exhibits had a forceful and transformative impact on visitors, one that moved them toward Protestant reform.Deeply researched and decidedly original, The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam uncovers a wealth of information about these nearly forgotten public pleasure parks, situating them within popular culture, religious controversies, global trade relations, and intellectual debates of the seventeenth century. It will appeal in particular to scholars in art history and early modern studies.
OP  - 236
CN  - SB475
SN  - 0271091916
SN  - 0271091908
SN  - 9780271091907
SN  - 9780271091914
SN  - 9780271091402
KW  - Labyrinths : Netherlands : Amsterdam : History : 17th century.
KW  - Robots : Netherlands : Amsterdam : History : 17th century.
KW  - Wax figures : Netherlands : Amsterdam : History : 17th century.
KW  - Fountains : Netherlands : Amsterdam : History : 17th century.
KW  - Protestantism in art.
KW  - Labyrinthes : Pays-Bas : Amsterdam : Histoire : 17e siècle.
KW  - Figures de cire : Pays-Bas : Amsterdam : Histoire : 17e siècle.
KW  - Fontaines : Pays-Bas : Amsterdam : Histoire : 17e siècle.
KW  - Protestantisme dans l'art.
KW  - ART / History / Baroque & Rococo.
KW  - Fountains
KW  - Labyrinths
KW  - Protestantism in art
KW  - Robots
KW  - Wax figures
KW  - Netherlands : Amsterdam
KW  - 1600-1699
KW  - 17th century.
KW  - Art Exhibitions.
KW  - Automata.
KW  - Clocks.
KW  - Dutch Republic.
KW  - Dutch.
KW  - Europe.
KW  - Fountains.
KW  - Labyrinths.
KW  - Popular culture.
KW  - Robots and art.
KW  - Robots.
KW  - Sculpture history.
KW  - Visual culture.
KW  - Wax figures.
KW  - Wax portraits.
KW  - garden history.
KW  - history.
KW  - History
ER  -