- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.
- 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"--
- Uniform Title
- Moving statues of seventeenth-century Amsterdam (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Moving statues of seventeenth-century Amsterdam (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction. The closed door : walking in -- Ritual routes. The courtyard fountain : Bacchic rites ; Into the labyrinth : containing the human monster -- The moving statue strikes. Automata : activating human behavior ; Strange things for strangers : transcultural automata -- Protestant paganism. Wax portraits : body politics ; Time machines in the golden age : the Kairos of clockwork -- Epilogue : obsolescence.
- LCCN
- 2021027948
- OCLC
- ssj0002851367
- Author
Vanhaelen, Angela.
- Title
The moving statues of seventeenth-century Amsterdam [electronic resource] : automata, waxworks, fountains, labyrinths / Angela Vanhaelen.
- Imprint
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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