Karl A.E. Enenkel

Konrad Adriaan Ottenheym

This study is dedicated to the constructions of “national”, regional/ local antiquities in early modern Europe, 1500-1700, especially the Northern Low Countries.

Constructions of a Glorious Past in the Early Modern Netherlands and in Europe

Ambitious Antiquities, Famous Forebears

In the renaissance also architecture from c. 800–1200 was regarded as a useful source of inspiration for contemporary building, sometimes by misinterpreting these medieval architecture as roman structures, sometimes because that era was also regarded as a glorious ‘ancient’ past.

Konrad Adriaan Ottenheym

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