Netherlandish Scrolled Gables of the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

Contents

Preface ix

List of Illustrations

1. Introduction 1

2. The Scroll Motif in Italy and the North 15

Scrolls as Volutes; Gables as Lunettes

The North in the Early Sixteenth Century

The Patronage of Margaret of Austria

The North Wings of the Palais de Savoie in Mechelen

3. Italians in Holland 29

4. Dutch and German Gables 1530–50 29

Gables of the 1530s in Germany and the Southern

Netherlands

Dutch Gables of the 1540s and 1550s

5. Antwerp 49

The Raadhuis

The Ornament of Floris and Vredeman

6. Netherlandish Gables at Home and Abroad 55

Gables of the 1560s

Gables of the 1570s

The Bollaertskamer in Gent

Gables of the 1580s and Early 1590s

7. Academic Reaction in Holland and Flanders 71

8. Gables in Holland of the Years around 1600 77

9. Netherlandish Northern Mannerism Abroad 81

The Frederiksborg Slot of Christian IV of Denmark

The Great Arsenal in Gdansk

10. Countercurrents in Holland after 1610 87

11. "Dutch" Gables in Early Stuart England 95

12. Major Danish Works of the Early Seventeenth Century 99

Notes 103

Illustrations 113

Index 149