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Its design is based on the classical orders of architecture. The central marquetry panel bears a perspectival scene of classical architecture. Both features reflect the fashion in northern Europe in the late 1500s for Renaissance style ornament derived from classical sources. \r\n\r\nHans Vredeman de Vries (1527-1606?) was a designer, architect and painter. He worked in the southern Netherlands and throughout the Holy Roman Empire. He was an artist of many talents and published engravings of his many designs. It was through these engravings that he most influenced artists of his time. The perspectival scene on the central panel of this door is similar to designs that he published in 1560. \r\n\r\nThe Spanish burnt Antwerp Town Hall in 1576. There is evidence that de Vries worked on its reconstruction in the 1580s. The Museum purchased the door in 1856, when the Town Hall in Antwerp was being remodelled.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Oak door, with architrave, pediment and flanking pilasters, inlaid with marquetry of various woods.  Door panel decorated with architectural perspective and surmounted by arabesque ornament.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Vredeman De Vries, Hans","id":"A1556"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"AAT25190"},"note":"attributed to"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"oak","id":"AAT12264"}],"techniques":[{"text":"marquetry","id":"AAT53853"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Oak, inlaid with marquetry of various woods","categories":[{"text":"Architectural fittings","id":"THES48994"},{"text":"Woodwork","id":"THES48877"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2011FB2668","2006AP3103","2016JK6899","2016JK6900","2017JR9357","2017JU9112"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES340899"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES342056"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Door","id":""}],[{"text":"Pediment to doorcase","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Antwerp (City)","id":"x28724"},"association":{"text":"designed","id":"x29338"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Antwerp (City)","id":"x28724"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1580","earliest":"1580-01-01","latest":"1580-12-31"},"association":{"text":"designed","id":"x29338"},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"1580","earliest":"1580-01-01","latest":"1580-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"290","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"Tall panel of architectural marquetry (sight size): 114 x 53.5cm"},{"dimension":"Width","value":"140","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"18","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"CHRISTVS.OGHE.DORSIENT.AL.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"1580","earliest":"1580-01-01","latest":"1580-12-31"},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"marquetry","position":"with arch above door","script":"Roman","translation":"The eyes of Christ see all","transliteration":"","type":"Dedication","note":"Dedication; Roman; with arch above door; marquetry; 1580"},{"content":"1580","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"marquetry","position":"within pediment above doorway","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"Date","note":"Date; within pediment above doorway; marquetry"}],"objectHistory":"Information on the museum's acquisition register records \"Brought from the Hotel de Ville, Antwerp\" [printed with annotation in pen \"From the school of Rhetoric at Diest\"], and \"Bought from a London dealer.\"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Door, oak, inlaid with marquestry of various woods, dated 1580, attributed to Hans Vredeman de Vries","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"ANTWERP, Museum Koninklijk voor Schone Kunsten: Tussen Stadspaleizen en Luchtkastelen – Hans Vredeman de Vries en de Renaissance. (Amsterdam, 2002), cat. no. 145"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"F. Blockmans: 'Een krijgstekening, een muurschildering en een schilderij van Hans Vredeman de Vries te Antwerpen (1577-1586)', Tijdschrift der Stad Antwerpen 8 (1962), pp.20-42 (p.25)"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"W.A. Thorpe, “The Great Bed of Ware and Harry Fanshawe” in Country Life, August 15, 1941, pp.286-290, fig.6"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Simon Sywnfen Jervis, 'Furniture at Hardwick Hall I' in David Adshead and David Taylor (eds.), <i>Hardwick Hall : A Great Old Castle of Romance </i>(New Haven and London, Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the National Trust, 2016),  p.107, fig. 116 (detail)\n\n'...an inlaid door dated 1580 in the Victoria and Albert Museum , which was originally in the restored town hall of Antwerp, designed by Cornelis Floris in 1560-4, but gutted by fire during the Spanish fury of 1576. In 1583 Hans Vredeman de Vries was paid for his part in the reinstallation of the treasury; he also designed and executed a complex painted scheme in the Staatsiekamer, the grand parade room, in which figures were set against virtuoso architectural perspectives. The door in London, which is fully in his style, must have been designed by Vredeman. It incorporates a vertical architectural perspective (fig.116), evidently executed by a professional workshop, perhaps that of Pieter van Geelbeke, the civic cabinet-maker, about 45 inches (114cm.) high and 21 inches (53.5cm) wide, thus of a scale comparable to that of the Hardwick panels. If, as seems likely, this solitary survivor had predecessors, perhaps including parts of the pre-fire decorations of the town hall, these might have been the inspiration for Bess's ambitious if rudimentary panels.'\n"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Heiner Borggrefe, Thomas Fusenig and Barbara Uppenkamp, H<i>ans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden</i> (Munich, 2002), pp. 305-7, figs. 145 "}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"DOOR\r\nAttributed to Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-1604) from the Town Hall, Antwerp, 1580. \r\nOak with marquetry of various woods, inscribed CHRISTVS OGHE DORSIENT AL (The eyes of Christ see all) and dated.\r\n\r\nHans Vredeman de Vries, the leading Flemish designer of architectural ornament in the 16th century, was in Antwerp when the Town hall, burnt by the Spanish in 1576, reconstructed.  This door, purchased by the Museum in 1856, when the Town Hall was being remodelled, has a central panel similar to designs for marquetry by Vredeman published in about 1560 under the title VARIAE ARCHITECTURE FORMAE (see photograph).","date":{"text":"pre October 2000","earliest":null,"latest":"2000-09-30"}}],"partNumbers":["4239:1-1856","4239:2-1856"],"accessionNumberNum":"4239","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1856,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LW1453"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-06-24","recordCreationDate":"2001-04-02","availableToBook":false}}