Spalding on Bechler, 'Schloss Oranienbaum: Architektur Und Kunstpolitik Der Oranierinnen in Der Zweiten HÖ¤Lfte Des 17
H-German Spalding on Bechler, 'Schloss Oranienbaum: Architektur und Kunstpolitik der Oranierinnen in der zweiten HÖ¤lfte des 17. Jahrhunderts' and Wehser, 'Anna Wilhelmine von Anhalt und ihr Schloss in Mosigkau: Idee und Gestaltung eines Gesamtkunstwerks' Review published on Saturday, October 1, 2005 Katharina Bechler. Schloss Oranienbaum: Architektur und Kunstpolitik der Oranierinnen in der zweiten HÖ¤lfte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Saale: mdv Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2002. 248 pp. EUR 26.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-89812-097-5.Astrid Wehser. Anna Wilhelmine von Anhalt und ihr Schloss in Mosigkau: Idee und Gestaltung eines Gesamtkunstwerks. Kiel: Ludwig, 2002. 336 pp. EUR 24.90 (paper), ISBN 978-3-933598-45-5. Reviewed by Almut Spalding (Department of Modern Languages and Program of Gender and Women's Studies, Illinois College) Published on H-German (October, 2005) To Represent a Dynasty When Princely Heirs Are Scarce: Castles of the Princesses of Orange Together, these two books explore the castle complexes that four succeeding generations of princesses of the house of Orange built in the seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries, among them Oranienburg near Berlin, Oranienbaum near Dessau, Oranienstein near Limburg/Lahn, and Mosigkau, also near Dessau. Wörlitz, another castle and park complex in the same tradition and also near Dessau, developed in the late eighteenth century by a male scion of the family, is considerably larger and in 2000 was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. The two present studies show, however, how the women in the family transmitted the interest in architecture and landscaping, and how their castles provided models when subsequent generations of the family embarked on building projects of their own.
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