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- Title
BUILDING UP AND TEARING DOWN: THE PERSISTENT ATTRACTION OF IMAGES OF DEMOLISHED BUILDINGS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH ART.
- Authors
Packer, Michelle V.
- Abstract
Throughout the seventeenth century, Amsterdam demolished buildings as it carried out expansions and made strategic decisions about its defenses. This essay argues that viewers attached images of demolished buildings to political and social alliances that were directly related to the sites of demolition. Images of such sites allowed viewers a means of imaginatively undoing changes to the city by reactivating memories of the sites in their pre-demolition states.
- Subjects
17TH century Dutch art; LOST architecture; ART &; architecture; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, 2012, Vol 4, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1949-9833
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5092/jhna.2012.4.1.3