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Dynastic Colonialism
Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force during a period in which the Dutch accrued one of the greatest seaborne empires. Using the concept of dynastic colonialism, they explore strategic behaviours undertaken on behalf of the House of Orange-Nassau, through material culture in a variety of sites of interpretation from palaces and gardens to prints and teapots, in Europe and beyond. Using over 140 carefully selected images, the authors co...
Monarchy, Myth, and Material Culture in Germany 1750-1950
A fascinating study of how ordinary German subjects collected and consumed royal relics and memorabilia.
Gender, Power and Identity in the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau
How do gender and power relationships affect the expression of family, House and dynastic identities? The present study explores this question using a case study of the House of Orange-Nassau, whose extensive visual, material and archival sources from both male and female members enable the authors to trace their complex attempts to express, gain and maintain power: in texts, material culture, and spaces, as well as rituals, acts and practices. The book adopts several innovative approaches to the history of the Orange-Nassau family, and to familial and dynastic studies generally. Firstly, the authors analyse in detail a vast body of previously unexplored sources, including correspondence, ar...
Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500 - 1750
Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 brings together research on women and gender across the Low Countries, a culturally contiguous region that was split by the Eighty Years' War into the Protestant Dutch Republic in the North and the Spanish-controlled, Catholic Hapsburg Netherlands in the South. The authors of this interdisciplinary volume highlight women’s experiences of social class, as family members, before the law, and as authors, artists, and patrons, as well as the workings of gender in art and literature. In studies ranging from microhistories to surveys, the book reveals the Low Countries as a remarkable historical laboratory for its topic and points to the opportunities the region holds for future scholarly investigations. Contributors: Martine van Elk, Martha Howell, Martha Moffitt Peacock, Sarah Joan Moran, Amanda Pipkin, Katlijne Van der Stighelen, Margit Thøfner, and Diane Wolfthal.
Europa in Weimar
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Frederick the Great
SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the 18th century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the 19th - a force of nature, a caustic, ruthless, brilliant military commander, a monarch of exceptional energy and talent, and a knowledgeable patron of artists, architects and writers, most famously Voltaire. From early in his reign he was already a legendary figure - fascinating even to those who hated him. Tim Blanning's brilliant new biography recreates a remarkable era, a world which would be swept away shortly after Frederick's death by the French Revolution. Equally at home on the battlefield or in the music room at Frederick's extraordinary miniature palace of Sanssouci, Blanning draws on a lifetime's obsession with the 18th century to create a work that is in many ways the summation of all that he has learned in his own rich and various career. Frederick's spectre has hung over Germany ever since: an inspiration, a threat, an impossible ideal - Blanning at last allows us to understand him in his own time.
Oud Holland
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century
Despite the tremendous number of studies produced annually in the field of Dutch art over the last 30 years or so, and the strong contemporary market for works by Dutch masters of the period as well as the public's ongoing fascination with some of its most beloved painters, until now there has been no comprehensive study assessing the state of research in the field. As the first study of its kind, this book is a useful resource for scholars and advanced students of seventeenth-century Dutch art, and also serves as a springboard for further research. Its 19 chapters, divided into three sections and written by a team of internationally renowned art historians, address a wide variety of topics, ranging from those that might be considered "traditional" to others that have only drawn scholarly attention comparatively recently.
Holländische & flämische Meisterwerke mit der rituellen verborgenen Geometrie
Nachdem die "EINFÜHRUNG A" zu den Elementen der Verborgenen Geometrie des Kunstbildes (Tempel, 3x3 Werte, Kleine Raute, Handgriffe, Magisches Dreieck, Reise der Wandlung, Lichtschacht, Kubus, Gral, solare Robe, Erhebung am Baukran, Kreis der Bewusstseinslage) und die "EINFÜHRUNG B" zu den Funktionen (künstlerische, mythische, religiöse, moralische, soziale, informative) der Verborgenen Geometrie Angaben machten, folgen hier in der "EINFÜHRUNG C" die Qualitäten im Sinne der Erzeugung/ Generierung von Bedeutung: Einer fraglichen (ungewohnten, unverständlichen, abwegigen) Darstellung im Bildgegenständlichen (in der Erzählung des Bildes) wird in der Verborgenen Geometrie (in der spiritu...
Altitalienische Malerei als preußisches Kulturgut
Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts entstand in Europa ein breites Interesse für italienische Malerei der Vor- und Frührenaissance. In Preußen war es besonders groß – innerhalb weniger Jahre kamen hunderte Gemälde nach Berlin. Der ästhetische, historische und politische Wert der Bilder wurde vielfältig diskutiert: Sie wurden zu identitätsstiftenden Kulturträgern, setzten Maßstäbe für die Geschmacksbildung des Publikums und für das Schaffen zeitgenössischer Künstler. Anhand neu erschlossener Quellen werden die in Preußen wahrgenommenen Gemälde im Detail identifiziert, ihr Weg aus Italien nachverfolgt und ihre wechselnden Zuschreibungen dokumentiert. Zu dieser virtuellen historischen Galerie öffnet sich auch ein Panorama europäischer Netzwerke von Sammlern, Händlern, Museums- und Staatsvertretern.
