![]() ![]() The sculptures at the foot of the east tower symbolised, from left to right, ‘Agriculture’, ‘Livestock’ and ‘Trade’. ![]() In the tympanums above the three windows of the meeting room, different peoples with their products paid homage to the maidenly personification of Amsterdam, enthroned in the central tympanum between the personifications of the IJ and the Amstel. ![]() Below this, the façade was graced by the city’s coat of arms, flanked by those of the fourteen cities to be linked to Amsterdam by rail. Meanwhile, one after the other the most eloquent decorations appeared on the facades, explained and described in all manner of publications as the State of the Netherlands and represented on the topmost gable by the national coat of arms. ‘Since they had put the roof in place, from his house Vedder could no longer see the wind sweeping over the IJ, but he could now read the direction of the wind on a dial that had been fixed to the west tower of the station building. Cuypers made an active contribution to the emancipation of the Catholic church in the Netherlands. More representative for his oeuvre, however, are numerous churches, of which he designed more than one hundred. The Rijksmuseum and the Central Station, Amsterdam's two most iconic commissions were the work of a Catholic architect from Limburg, Pierre Cuypers. ![]()
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