Summary

Author: Cuypers, P.J.H. & Kalf, Jan

Title: De katholieke kerken in Nederland. Dat is de tegenwoordige staat dier kerken met hunne meubeling en versierung beschreven en afgebeeld. Uitgeven onder leiding van Dr.P.J.H.Cuypers. Tekst door Jan Kalf.

Publication: Amsterdam, Van Houkema & Warendorf 1906.

Price: Sold

Reference: 05838

Full Description

This very impressive (and heavy !) volume provides an admirably complete illustrated record and architectural description of the churches of the Roman Catholic community in the Netherlands, the great majority of them architect-designed buildings of the later nineteenth century. As in other Northern European countries, the existing cathedrals and parish churches largely passed into Protestant hands at the Reformation, with the result that when the Catholic hierarchy was eventually restored in 1853 an extensive church building programme was necessary, in which the dominant figure was the architect P.J.H. Cuypers (1827-1921), himself a Roman Catholic and strongly influenced by the precepts of Viollet-le-Duc. Cuypers’s most familiar building today is the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, but these volumes show the scale of his practice as a Gothic Revival church architect and few European architects of his time can have had similar opportunities. Recorded in NUC from the copies in New York Public Library and Catholic University of America only.