Research Catalog

Title

The moving statues of seventeenth-century Amsterdam : automata, waxworks, fountains, labyrinths / Angela Vanhaelen.

Author

Vanhaelen, Angela

Publication

• University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
• ©2022.

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Description

x, 211 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 26 cm

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"--

Subject

• 1600-1699
• Labyrinths > Amsterdam > History > 17th century
• Robots > Amsterdam > History > 17th century
• Wax figures > Amsterdam > History > 17th century
• Protestantism in art
• Fountains > Amsterdam > History > 17th century
• Labyrinthes > Amsterdam > Histoire > 17e siècle
• Figures de cire > Amsterdam > Histoire > 17e siècle
• Protestantisme dans l'art
• Fontaines > Amsterdam > Histoire > 17e siècle
• Fountains
• Labyrinths
• Robots
• Wax figures
• Netherlands > Amsterdam

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index.

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.

Call Number

SB475

ISBN

• 9780271091402
• 0271091401

LCCN

• 2021027948
• 40031082081

OCLC

• on1256592888
• 1256592888
• SCSB-14254582

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries