Krista de Jonge and Konrad Ottenheym, eds.
Unity and Discontinuity: Architectural Relationships between the Southern and Northern Low Countries (1530–1700)
Turnhout:
Brepols,
2007.
436 pp.; 342 b/w ills.
Paper
$130.00
(9782503513669)
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This ambitious, multi-authored volume brings to fruition nearly ten years of academic effort. The two editors, who are in fact responsible for over two-thirds of the book, set out to question and, ultimately, to discredit a deeply entrenched set of scholarly habits. They argue persuasively that there can be no rigid division between “Dutch” and “Flemish” architecture in the early modern period. As Konrad Ottenheym demonstrates in an impassioned introduction, such a division was only...