Simon Bosboom (1614,

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– 1662,

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), was a

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architect and writer.

Biography

He was active as an architect in England and Germany, before working on an almshouse for the city council of Nijmegen in 1640.,Simon Bosboom
in the

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His son Dirk, who later became an engraver, was born in Nijmegen in 1641. Bosboom moved to Amsterdam when he was hired as a master mason to assist

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for his work as city architect of Amsterdam. He helped him with the City Hall of Amsterdam, his largest city project. In 1653 he was promoted to city mason after the dismissal of Willem de Keyser, and in 1657, the year of Van Campen's death, Bosboom was promoted to city architect. Just as Hubertus Quellinus had done for the city hall in 1665, Bosboom published a small instructional booklet on architecture with engravings after

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entitled "Cort onderwys van de Vyf Colommen"; or ''Short instruction on the five columns ( Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, Composite)''. His book earned him an honorary place in

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's book of artists.

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, page 546 He wrote that he helped

and Artus Quellinus with decorations for the City Hall of Amsterdam, built in 1649-1653. His book became a popular handbook for architects that was reprinted several times and served to spread the ideas of Scamozzi throughout the Netherlands.

References

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