A Noble Nomad?
The Residential System of Charles of Croy (1560-1612)
By (author) Sanne Maekelberg
Charles III of Croy, Duke of Aarschot, was one of the highest noblemen of the Low Countries and a foremost patron of the arts and architecture, a military commander and heir to the illustrious Croy dynasty. In 1595 he inherited a vast collection of domains and residences, for which he developed extensive and ambitious renovation plans. Using a wide range of sources specific to architectural history and history of the nobility, combined with tools from the digital humanities, this book presents for the first time an in-depth study of Charles of Croy’s patronage and architectural programme and how these were used to express status and pageantry to the contemporary observer.
- By (author) Sanne Maekelberg
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Town Planning in the Low Countries in International Context. Exchanges in Theory and Practice 1550-1800
Volume 10
Innovation and Experience in Early Baroque in the Southern Netherlands. The Case of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp
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Trade in Good Taste
Relations in Architecture and Culture between the Dutch Republic and the Baltic World in the Seventeenth Century
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Unity and Discontinuity
Architectural Relationships between the Southern and Northern Low Countries (1530-1700)
Volume 5
The Reception of P.P. Rubens’s ‘Palazzi di Genova’ during the 17th Century in Europe
Questions and Problems
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The Low Countries at the Crossroads
Netherlandish Architecture as an Export Product in Early Modern Europe (1480-1680)
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Building the Presence of the Prince
The Institutions Responsible for the Construction and Management of the Buildings of European Courts (14th-17th centuries)
Volume 14
Architecture as profession
The origins of architectural practice in the Low Countries in the fifteenth century
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