On failure: error and defeat in Netherlandish art

Contents

Introduction. The art of failure / Stijn Bussels, Hanneke Grootenboer, Joost Keizer and Natasha Seaman -- When Jan van Scorel tried to build Rome in the sea / Braden Lee Scott -- Remembering a failed rebellion : William of Orange and bladder stones at the Antwerp citadel / Koen Bulckens -- Disorienting lines : Hendrick Goltzius and the art of failure / Laura Valterio and Clim Wijands -- 'Thus appears the Murderers' Bay...' : on the fateful Māori-European encounter recorded in 1642 by Isaac Gilsemans / Nicole Ganbold -- De Wittiana : a response to political failure? Pieter de Graeff's attempts to rehabilitate Johan de Witt / Marianne Eekhout -- Exploring gravity in an early modern sketchbook : force and failure / Marte Sophie Meessen -- Building on demolition : planning for decline in the early nineteenth-century Dutch shrinking city / Minke Walda.