Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Amsterdam Gabled Houses: Topographic Views

Collection: 
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title: 
Amsterdam Gabled Houses: Topographic Views
Image View: 
Step gabled house at Keizergracht (Emperor's Canal) number 123 (built 1622 by Hendrik de Keyser)
Creator: 
Scott Gilchrist (Canadian photographer, born 1960)
Location: 
creation: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Location Note: 
Grachtengordel, canal district
GPS: 
+52.36706+4.8645
Date: 
photographed 2013 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Dutch
Style Period: 
Baroque; Seventeenth century; Twenty-first century
Work Type 1: 
topographical view
Classification: 
architectural elements
Material: 
digital images
Technique: 
photography
Description: 
The step gable first appeared in 1500 and was a feature of Dutch Renaissance architecture at the end of the 16th century. This was characterized by brick (mostly painted red) with layers of stone (mostly painted yellow) and by façades decorated with masks, cartouches and garlands. The later classicizing Baroque style brought such classical elements as the frame gable with tympanum. The mid-17th century saw French influence; luxuriantly decorated Rococo gables, sometimes in the form of a large crest, were used on narrow houses with neck gables and Dutch gables as well as on the larger patricians’ houses along the canals with frame gables. Most gables, especially lining the canals, have traditional hoist beams at the top, to raise goods and furniture up and into the narrow buildings. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Image Description: 
Decorated with the heads of six Roman gods and goddesses: Apollo (arts), Ceres (agriculture), Mars (war), Minerva (wisdom), Bacchus (wine) and Diana (the hunt); informally called the House with the Heads (Huis met de Hoofden). The house was built in 1622 by municipal architect Hendrik de Keyser. Arms merchant Louis de Geer lived here from 1634.
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Nine
Identifier: 
1A2-N-A-DGH-A35
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.