| PROLOGUE | |
| Dr Geoffrey
(N.G.) Parker (Nottingham, UK 1943) is Professor of History at
Ohio State University, and previously taught at the University of
St Andrews in Great Britain, at the University of British Columbia
in Canada, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at
Yale in the United States. He has researched the reign of Philip II
for almost forty years, publishing a series of studies -- including
The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659: The Logistics
of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries' Wars, London
1972 (revised edition, 2004); The Dutch Revolt, London 1977
(revised edition, 1985); Philip II, Boston-Toronto 1978 (fourth
edition, 2001); and The Grand Strategy of Philip II, New Haven-London
1998 -- as well as many articles. His best-known book is probably
The military revolution. Military innovation and the rise of the
West, 1500-1800, Cambridge 1988 (third edition, 2000). In 1984
Geoffrey Parker was elected a Fellow of the British Academy; in 1992
the King of Spain made him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella
the Catholic in recognition of his work on Spanish history; and in
1999 the Society for Military History awarded him its Samuel Eliot
Morison Prize for his work in Military History - The
window everyone overlooked. |
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PART I
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PLACE & TIME |
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GOUDA,
1549
- 1559
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| DONORS (1) - PHILIP II | ||
| Estrella
(E.) Cavero Saiz (Madrid, Spain 1964) studied Geography and
History with specialization in Art History and Ancient History at
the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. She is finishing her doctoral
thesis on El felicíssimo viaje by Juan Cristóbal Calvete
de Estrella, focusing on Prince Philip's 1549 voyage to the Low
Countries - The accession of Emperor Charles
V's son as king of Spain, king of England and sovereign of the Low
Countries, 1549-1559. Dr Dina (B.) Aristodemo (Cosenza, Italy 1941) was associate Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Amsterdam until 2002. She has authored studies on Italian Renaissance literature and Italian authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 1994 she published the critical edition of Lodovico Guicciardini's Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi (1567); the first complete description of the Low Countries - The joyeuses entrées of 1549: The staging of royal power and civic prestige. in collaboration with Drs Fernando (F.) Brugman (Papendrecht, Netherlands 1969) wrote in 1995 his master's thesis El 'felicísimo viaje' de Calvete de Estrella. Los Países Bajos en 1550, the description of Prince Philip's joyeuses entrées into the towns of the Netherlands, for his European Studies degree at the University of Amsterdam. He is currently working at UNESCO in Paris on the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. |
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| DONORS (2) - MARY TUDOR | |
| Dr
Glyn (G.) Redworth (Wellington, Shropshire, UK 1958) read History
at Cambridge University and holds a doctorate from Oxford University.
Last year he published The Prince and the Infanta: The Cultural
Politics of the Spanish Match, Yale University Press 2003 (El
príncipe y la infanta: una boda real frustrada, Madrid 2004);
the struggle of the future King Charles I to win a Spanish princess
as his bride. His current research interests include a study on
'The short reign of Philip I of England'. At the moment he holds
the position of lecturer in Modern History at the University of
Manchester - 'Matters impertinent
to women': Male and female monarchy under Philip and Mary. |
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| GOUDA | |
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Dr Koen (K.) Goudriaan (Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands
1950) is Professor of Mediaeval History at the Vrije Universiteit
in Amsterdam. He has published on the cultural and religious history
of the Northern Netherlands in the Later Middle Ages and was involved
in the production of Duizend jaar Gouda. Een stadsgeschiedenis,
Hilversum 2002; a comprehensive history of the City of Gouda - City
and sovereign: The pragmatic relations between Gouda and its monarchs
Charles V and Philip II, 1549-1559.
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| GOUDA HUMANISTS | |
| Dr Cornelia
(C.M.) Ridderikhoff (Hoorn, Netherlands 1936) was a staff member
and researcher in the Department of Renaissance Studies at the Constantijn
Huygens Institute for text editions and intellectual history, The
Hague. She was granted a doctor's degree at the University of Leiden
for her thesis Jean Pyrrhus d Anglebermes: Rechtswetenschap en
Humanisme aan de universiteit van Orléans in het begin van de 16e
eeuw, The Hague 1981. She was principal editor of the series Les
Livres des procurateurs de la nation germanique de l'ancienne Université
d'Orléans 1444-1567, 6 vols., Leiden 1971-1988. For the last fifteen
years she has been working on the publication of the Briefwisseling
van Hugo Grotius, vols. 13-17, The Hague 1990-2001 - Humanists,
'Batavian ears', and Philip II as a Christian soldier in Gouda. in collaboration with Dr Lucy (L.L.E.) Schlüter (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1941) is an art historian and a collaborator in the Department of Renaissance Studies at the Constantijn Huygens Institute for text editions and intellectual history, The Hague. Her Ph.D.-thesis deals with the gardens, the house and the paintings described by Erasmus in the colloquy Convivium religiosum, which he wrote in 1522. Other publications are Erasmus op de penning, Rotterdam 1997; The Elsevier Non Solus Imprint, together with Pierre Vinken, Amsterdam 1997; 'Sporen van de Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in de zestiende-eeuwse beeldende kunsten van de Lage Landen' (Tracce dell'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili nelle arti figurative del Cinquecento nei Paesi Bassi), Incontri 14, 1999; and 'De plaats der vrome zielen. Inleiding'. Introduction to Desiderius Erasmus, Een goddelijk festijn, Rotterdam 2004. |
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| SINT JANSKERK | |
| Drs
Bianca (B.) van den Berg (The Hague, Netherlands 1963) studied
Art History with a specialization in Mediaeval Architecture at the
University of Leiden. Until recently she was a senior policy advisor
for Monument Conservation and Archeology in the Department of City
Planning of the Council of Gouda. Since 2005 she is an inspector in
the Department of Cultural Heritage at the Ministry of Education,
Culture and Science in The Hague, and is president of the Stichting
Open Monumentendag (Foundation Open Heritage Day). Currently she is
working on her dissertation on the building history of Sint Janskerk
- Turbulent times for Sint Janskerk in Gouda.
The story of the building campaign and the reconstruction after the
Great Fire of 1552. Ir Marinus (M.) Gout (The Hague, Netherlands 1922) studied Architecture at the Technical University in Delft. In 1948 he entered the service of the Building department of Philips Electronics Company in Eindhoven. His buildings include the fluorescent light factory in Roosendaal and Philips-Duphar in Weesp in the Netherlands, and Philips headquarters in Hamburg, Warschau and Istanbul. In 1951 he was architect for Philips Spain: headquarters in Madrid in collaboration with Professor Eduardo Torroja y Miret, and a new factory complex in Barcelona. In 1953 he became Professor and served several times as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and vice chancellor of the Technical University in Delft. After retirement in 1983 he studied the symbolical backgrounds of mediaeval cathedrals, which resulted in several publications - The symbolic context of Sint Janskerk in Gouda, in the light of the architectural development of the French Cathedral. |
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| MUSIC | |
| Drs
Marloes (M.C.) Biermans (Ede, Netherlands 1978) studied Musicology
at the University of Utrecht. She majored in Renaissance and Baroque
music. Her master's thesis deals with the transmission of the psalm-motets
of Josquin des Prez in the German-speaking part of Europe. She works
as a librarian and production manager for Combattimento Consort Amsterdam;
an orchestra mainly playing music from the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. She also is website editor for the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra in Amsterdam - Music
and liturgy in Sint Janskerk in Gouda. |
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PART II
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OBJECT |
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THE
KING's
WINDOW
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| HABSBURG PATRONAGE | |
| Drs
Jan (J.) Van Damme (Schoten, Antwerp, Belgium 1957) holds a licentiate
in Art History from the Catholic University in Leuven and a postgraduate
degree in Monument and Landscape Conservation from the Henry Van de
Velde Institute in Antwerp. He works as an art historian in the Department
of Monuments and Cultural Heritage of the Province of East-Flanders
(Ghent), and is a member of the Flemish Committee of Corpus Vitrearum
Medii Aevi - The
donation of the Seventh Window: A Burgundian-Habsburg tradition and
the role of Viglius van Aytta. Wim (W.) de Groot (Aalst, Netherlands 1949) was trained as a paper restorer at the Print Room (Rijksprentenkabinet) at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. He worked for the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, Denmark; Conservation of Leben oder Theater - ein Singespiel, the collection of gouaches by Charlotte Salomon, for the Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum; Conservation of works of art on paper by Theo van Doesburg from the Wies van Moorsel Estate donated in 1981 to the Dutch State. Since 1991 he has been working on the conservation of the cartoons for the stained-glass windows of Sint Janskerk. Between 1993-1996 he restored the cartoon of the King's Window and in 1998 did the installation of this working drawing for Felipe II. Un príncipe del Renacimiento in the exhibition hall of the Museo del Prado in Madrid - Viglius van Aytta and the iconography of the Seventh Window, and his protective influence during the Iconoclasm of 1566 in Gouda. Idem - Habsburg patronage and the particular situation of the emperor's and king's windows during the Dutch Revolt. |
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| ICONOGRAPHY (1) - THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE OF KING SOLOMON | |||
| Dr Juan
Rafael (J.R.) de la Cuadra Blanco (Madrid, Spain 1963) was granted
in 1994 a doctor's degree in Architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior
de Arquitectura in Madrid for his thesis El Monasterio de El Escorial
y el origen simbólico de su Traza Universal. He has published
numerous articles regarding the temple of Jerusalem, its influence
on El Escorial and the parallelism between Charles V and Philip II
and David and Solomon - King Philip of Spain
as Solomon the Second: The origins of Solomonism of the Escorial in
the Netherlands. Dr Klaas (K.A.D.) Smelik (Hilversum, Netherlands 1950) is Professor of Old Testament, Jewish Studies and Hebrew Language at the University Faculty of Protestant Theology at Brussels and visiting Professor for Jewish History at the Catholic University at Leuven. He published Converting the Past: Studies in Ancient Israelite and Moabite Historiography, Leiden 1992. His interest lies in the ideological representation of the past in Near Eastern, especially Israelite literature - The portrayal of King Solomon in the Hebrew Bible. |
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| ICONOGRAPHY (2) - THE LAST SUPPER | |
| Dr Rebecca
(R.E.) Zorach (New York, USA 1969) received her Ph.D. in Renaissance
Art and Art Theory in 1999 and is currently an Assistant Professor
of Art History at the University of Chicago. She has published essays
on Titian, Renaissance perceptions of sodomy, and the Galerie Francois
I at Fontainebleau, and has just completed a book entitled Blood,
Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance, Chicago
2005. She has also worked on Reformation and Counter-Reformation
imagery of the 1550s and 1560s and on Philip II's patronage and diplomacy.
Her approach draws on theology, anthropology, and semiotic theories
in studying the function of sacrifice, ritual and violence in the
visual culture of sixteenth-century Europe - 'Blood
upon the earth': Sacrifice and ritual in the King's Window of Gouda.
Dr Kees (C.P.J.) van der Ploeg (Appingedam, Netherlands 1954) lectures in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Groningen and Radboud University in Nijmegen, and in 2002 was a visiting lecturer at the University of Pisa. He was awarded a doctorate for his dissertation Art Architecture and Liturgy Siena Cathedral in the Middle Ages, Groningen 1993. His research concerns the art and architecture of the Middle Ages, with a special focus on Italy. He was one of the editors and authors of Muurschilderkunst in Nedersaksen, Bremen en Groningen. Vensters op het verleden, 2 vols., Groningen 2001 (German edition: Wandmalerei in Niedersachsen, Bremen und im Groningerland. Fenster in die Vergangenheit, 2 vols., Munich and Berlin 2001); and he edits the quarterly journal Groninger Kerken. He also publishes articles on the architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on the preservation of monuments and historic buildings - Iconographical aspects of the Last Supper in the Middle Ages. |
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| REGALIA, HERALDRY AND COSTUMES | |
| Drs Andrea
(A.C.) Gasten (Phoenix, Arizona, USA 1949) studied Art History
at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of
Utrecht and has written about various facets of Dutch Art, including
Dutch Symbolism and Vincent van Gogh. Recently she wrote about the
heraldry in the stained-glass windows by the Crabeth brothers in Sint
Janskerk, which appeared in Corpus Vitrearum Netherlands, vol.
2, Amsterdam 2002; and 'A nineteenth-century drawing after a lost
sixteenth-century stained-glass window in the St Jacobskerk in The
Hague', Simiolus 29, 2002 - The kingship
of Philip and Mary: Some remarks on presentation and heraldry and
the special circumstances surrounding the King's Window of Gouda. |
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| ORNAMENT | |
| Dr Peter
(P.) Fuhring (Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands 1952) is a free-lance
art historian living in Paris, specialized in the history of ornament
and design. He has published extensively on issues dealing with ornament
prints and design drawings, including Design into Art. Drawings
for Architecture and Ornament. The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection,
2 vols., London 1989; fully illustrated inventory of the prints after
Hans and Paul Vredeman de Vries, in the series Hollstein's Dutch
& Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700, vols. XLVII-XLVIII,
Rotterdam 1997; and Ornament Prints in The Rijksmuseum. The seventeenth
century, 3 vols. Studies in Prints and Printmaking, vol.
5, Amsterdam-Rotterdam 2004. He is currently co-curating an exhibition
on the 16th-century architect, designer and printmaker Jacques Androut
du Cerceau - Ornament in the King's Window
of Gouda. |
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| CONSTRUCTION & CONSERVATION | |
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Wim (W.) de Groot - The
King's Window of Gouda, a prestigious commission? |
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PRODUCTION
OF THE
SEVENTH WINDOW
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VERLOREN
PUBLISHERS |
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| TRANSLATION |
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Donald (D.) Gardner (London, UK 1938) studied Medieval and Renaissance History at Oxford. He received his B.Litt.,Oxon in 1963 with a thesis on Politics and Propaganda under Giovanni II Bentivoglio of Bologna. He has lived in Holland since 1979 and works as a translator in the fields of Art, Art History and Architecture. Most recently he was co-translator of Jan van Herwaarden's Between Saint James and Erasmus. Studies in Late-Medieval Religious Life. Devotions and Pilgrimages in the Netherlands, Leiden 2003.
Drs Andrea (A.C.) Gasten (see Authors). |
| INDEX |
| Martin
(M.L.) White (Chicago, USA 1946) has been an indexer since 1982.
He worked for Encyclopædia Britannica as an indexer, indexing supervisor,
and in thesaurus development. The index for Children's Britannica,
for which he was index supervisor, was a runner-up for the Wheatley
Medal of the Society of Indexers (UK). He has been a freelance indexer
since 1990, full-time since 1995. He specializes in scholarly books,
but also indexes trade books, textbooks, and medical journals. His
index for John Patrick Diggins's The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism
and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority, Chicago 1994, received
the 1995 H.W. Wilson Award of the American Society of Indexers for
Excellence in Book Indexing. |
| SPONSORING | |
|
Art
& Design & Photo, Amsterdam |
| EXHIBITIONS |
| Felipe
II. Un príncipe del Renacimiento, Museo del Prado, Madrid (1998/99) Isaac van Swanenburg (1537-1614), kunstenaar aan de macht, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden (1998-1999) Het geheim van Gouda. De cartons van de Goudse Glazen, Stedelijk Museum het Catharina Gasthuis te Gouda (2002) |
| PAPER CONSERVATION |
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Vijftien
jaar restauratie van de Goudse cartons (2000) |
| LINKS |
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NWO
(Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk
Onderzoek), Den Haag |