Unity and Discontinuity: Architectural Relationships Between the Southern and Northern Low Countries (1530-1700)

De Jonge

ISBN 10: 2503513662 / ISBN 13: 9782503513669

Published by Brepols Publishers, 2007

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2007. Illustrated. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Unity and Discontinuity: Architectural Relationships Between the Southern and Northern Low Countries (1530-1700)
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503513662
• ISBN 13: 9782503513669
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This study focuses on change and continuity within the architecture of the Southern and Northern Low Countries from 1530 to 1700. Instead of looking at both regions separately and stressing the stylistic differences between the classicist North and the baroque South, the book establishes a new, common history of architecture for both parts of the Low Countries during the 17th century. Their reception of Antiquity in the guise of the Italian Renaissance, first introduced in Court circles in the early 16th century, constituted the common heritage on which they built after the political separation. The book also reassesses the position of Netherlandish architecture in the international debate on the Renaissance north of the Alps. Contains 350 illustrations.

About the Author

Konrad Ottenheym is professor of architectural history at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He is specialised in the architecture of the Northern Low Countries and its international relationships. Krista De Jonge is professor of architectural history at Leuven University, Belgium. She is well known for her publications on the architecture of the Southern Low Countries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in a European perspective.