Introductiecollege
• Sober: calvinisme, 'simple people'
• Geen hoogdravende architectuur
• Klein: gevels waren smal [kosten aanleggen grachten en straten]
• Grote ramen: gewicht van de muren verminderen
• Oude en nieuwe tradities vermengen
• Belang van familie en kinderen > belang van de gezinswoning
• 'The Dutch loved their homes' > interieurs, modellen op schaal [poppenhuizen]
• Pronken: welstand; schoonheid (cleanliness)
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| Pieter de Hooch, Moeder ontluist haar kind (ca. 1661) |
Under the Gables
Dutch Domesticity in the Golden Age
"According to Rybczynski, "It was the opinion of more than one contemporary visitor that the Dutch prized three things above all else: first their children, second their homes, and third their gardens." The Netherlands was highly urbanized, in comparison with Europe and England, and was the first country to build up a substantial middle class. Dutch families became the first to begin to withdraw their nuclear families from the public thoroughfare of the medieval home. At the same time, the place of work began to be separated from the home, with the man dominating the workplace and the woman the home. Also at this point, children stayed at home for a far longer period than they did in the Middle Ages. This new distribution of people and place was key, according to Rybczynski, in creating a new sense of home that was dominated more by the woman than the man and that centered around the rearing of children within the privatized setting of the nuclear family."
HEIDI DE MARE
- Kernwoorden: intimiteit, burgerlijkheid, netheid, gezelligheid, sereniteit, orde, huiselijkheid, functionaliteit, soberheid
- 'De negentiende-eeuwse mythe van de huiselijkheid bleek levensvatbaar en verspreidde zich tot in de haarvaten van de westerse cultuur'
Mythologisering van het Hollandse Huis
Drie clichés:1. Domesticatie Hollandse (Huis)vrouw2. De Disciplinerende Plattegrond3. De Diepere lezing van Schilderijen
