Passion and Control: Dutch Architectural Culture of the Eighteenth Century

Redefining long-established paradigms of early modern architectural history, Passion and Control reveals the central importance of architecture to eighteenth-century society. The author presents a tapestry of sources to reconstruct the cultural context and meaning of these buildings as they were perceived by contemporaries, including representations in texts, drawings and prints, and builds on recent research by cultural historians on consumerism, material culture and luxury, print culture and the public sphere, and the history of ideas and mentalities.