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Gemalte res publica. Zur kreativen Aneignung der Antike(n) im ehemaligen Rathaus von Amsterdam

  • Mariam Hammami
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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the creative appropriation of antiquity in the painted decoration of Amsterdam’s former Town Hall and examines it as a vehicle for political, religious, and art-theoretical discourse. By analysing Govert Flinck’s Marcus Curius Dentatus Refuses the Gifts of the Samnites, Ferdinand Bol’s Fabricius and Pyrrhus, and the different versions of the Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis by Govert Flinck, Jürgen Ovens, and Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, the chapter argues that these paintings functioned as an aesthetic space for negotiating republican values. In this context, the visualisation of Roman and Batavian history particularly reflected on the specific functions of art in the res publica.

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the creative appropriation of antiquity in the painted decoration of Amsterdam’s former Town Hall and examines it as a vehicle for political, religious, and art-theoretical discourse. By analysing Govert Flinck’s Marcus Curius Dentatus Refuses the Gifts of the Samnites, Ferdinand Bol’s Fabricius and Pyrrhus, and the different versions of the Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis by Govert Flinck, Jürgen Ovens, and Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, the chapter argues that these paintings functioned as an aesthetic space for negotiating republican values. In this context, the visualisation of Roman and Batavian history particularly reflected on the specific functions of art in the res publica.

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