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Alessandro Metlica This workshop focuses on representations of Joris Oddens power in the 17th-century . University of Padova The question how power is represented sparks Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies the interest of scholars working in a wide range (DiSLL) Complesso Beato Pelegrini – Via of disciplines. This workshop brings together Vendramini 7 – 35137 Padova, Italy political, cultural, and intellectual historians, literary scholars and art historians. It aims to If you wish to attend the workshop, please register stimulate a cross-disciplinary dialogue about by sending an e-mail to Joris Oddens representations in art, literature, ritual and ([email protected]) before 22 November 2019. other media. The participants have been Please state which days you would like to attend. invited to reflect on the challenge of This workshop is funded by the project Republics representing power in a republican state, in an on the Stage of Kings. Representing Republican State age when monarchy was the dominant state Power in the Europe of Absolute Monarchies, late model. The third day will be devoted to the 16th - early 18th Century (ERC Starting Grant, presentation and discussion of the ongoing Grant Agreement ID 758450, PI Alessandro ERC-project Republics on the Stage of Kings. Metlica) with additional support of the Royal Institute Rome. Location The workshop takes place in the Auditorium of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR), Via Omero 12, 00197 Rome, Italy. The Dutch Republic

and the Lure of Monarchy

Representing Power in the Seventeenth Century

11-13 December 2019, KNIR (Rome) 17.45-18.30 11.30-12.00 Break Wednesday, 11 December Alexander Dencher ( / Rijksmuseum ) 12.00-12.45 15.00-15.30 Crafting a Canon for the Stadholder-King: The Arthur Weststeijn (Utrecht University) Joris Oddens (University of Padova - KNAW Medallic Portrait and the Representation of William Empire of Riches: The Representation of Humanities Cluster) III after the Glorious Revolution Opening and Introduction Imperial Power in Amsterdam and Recife

15.30-16.30 12.45-13.30 Friday, 13 December Peter Arnade (University of Hawaii) Marianne Klerk (University of Oxford) Keynote 1 Beyond : Predatory Monarchy 09:30-10.00 City, Republic, Empire: The Royal and the and State Interest in the Dutch Republic Alessandro Metlica (University of Padova) Republican in the Late-Medieval and Early- Introduction of the ERC project Republics on the Modern Low Countries 13.30-15.00 Lunch Stage of Kings (RISK)

16.30-17.00 Break 15.00-15.45 10:00-10.45 Ida Nijenhuis (Huygens ING / Enrico Zucchi (University of Padova) 17.00-18.00 Radboud University Nijmegen) Political Ideas and Republican Thought on Stage Margriet van Eikema Hommes (Delft Implementing Republican Authority: Honour between Genoa and Amsterdam in the first half of the University of Technology) and Reputation in the States General seventeenth century Keynote 2 Discoveries of Gerard de Lairesses Ceiling 15.45.16.30 10.45-11.30 Painting for the Amsterdam Former Laura Plezier (University of Leiden) Joris Oddens (University of Padova) Burgomaster Andries de Graeff: Republican The Republicanism of the Newly Built Town Power, Portraits, and Political Identity in the Statements before and during the "Disaster Hall of Amsterdam in Seventeenth-Century Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic Year" 1672 Poems 11:30-12.00 Break 18.00 Buffet for all registered attendees 16.30-17.00 Break 12.00-12.45 Giovanni Florio (University of Padova) Thursday, 12 December 17.00-17.45 Suzanne van de Meerendonk (Colgate Beyond Venice: Using the Local Archives of the University) Terraferma to Study the Perception of Venetian Civic 10.00-10.45 Treated like Royalty: Ceremonial Receptions Ritual Helmer Helmers (KNAW Humanities into Amsterdam in 1580, 1638, and 1660 Cluster) 12.45-14.00 Lunch "Foolishly Charm’d With the Magicall Spells of Monarchy"? The Dutch Infatuation With the 14.00-15.00 House of Stuart in the First Half of the Wyger Velema (University of Amsterdam), Judith Seventeenth Century Pollmann (Leiden University), Maartje van Gelder (University of Amsterdam), Stijn Bussels (Leiden 10.45-11.30 University) Freya Sierhuis (University of York) Comments on the RISK project A Dutch Sonderweg? Geerard Brandt’s Historie der Reformatie and the struggle for the identity 15.00-15.30 of the Dutch Republic General discussion of the RISK project & conclusion