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Events of Interest Vol. 27, No. 3 “De Nieu Vol. 27, No. 3 “De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius” Sept. 2011 Events of interest clarify how exceptional his animated this description, all painted by poses and virtuoso brushwork were at Rembrandt and his pupils between Until October 10, 2011. “Frans the time. For more information go to: 1643 and 1655. Bust-length Hals in the Metropolitan Mus- www.metmuseum.org. portraits, they show the same young eum.” The Metropolitan Museum *** man familiar from traditional of Art holds the most important artistic conceptions of Christ, yet collection of paintings in America October 24-25, 2011. An Interna- each figure also bears a slightly by the celebrated Dutch artist tional Bilateral Conference “Albertus different expression. In posing an Frans Hals (1582/83-1666). His C. Van Raalte, Leader and Liaison” ethnographically correct model and portraits and genre scenes were Celebrating the Bicentennial of the using a human face to depict Jesus, famous in his lifetime for their Birth of the Reverend Albertus C. Rembrandt overturned the entire immediacy and dazzling brush- Van Raalte DD (b. 17 October 1811). history of Christian art, which had work. This exhibition presents To be held October 24-25, 2011 at previously relied on rigidly copied thirteen paintings by Hals, Hope College in Michigan. Program: prototypes for Christ. including two lent from private http://bit.ly/onF0MD *** collections, and several works by *** other Netherlandish masters. November 17-18, 2011. “Upheaval Until October 30, 2011. Several of the Museum’s “Rembrandt & Disaster, Triumph & Tragedy: paintings by Hals are famous and the Face of Jesus” at the Philadel- AFTERMATH.” The annual especially the early “Merrymakers phia Museum of Art. Rembrandt van Researching New York conference at Shrovetide” (ca. 1616) and the Rijn (1606–1669) is universally at the University at Albany. The so-called “Yonker Ramp and His acclaimed as the greatest master New Netherland Research Center Sweetheart” (1623), both painter of the Dutch Golden Age, the will chair an off-campus session on bequeathed to the Museum by 17th-century efflorescence of art in Thursday at the NYS Library Benjamin Altman in 1913. Also the Netherlands. Thanks to an concerning the aftermath of the included in the exhibition are two inventory of his home and studio English takeover of New Nether- loans from private collections in conducted in July 1656, we know that land in 1664. For more information New York—the small, exquisite Rembrandt kept in his bedroom two go to: http://bit.ly/a2YHCM Portrait of Samuel Ampzing of his own paintings called Head of Christ *** (1630), on copper, and the . A third painting—identified “Head of Christ, from life” November 18, 2011. well-known Fisher Girl (1630– as a The 30th Peter 32). A selection of other Dutch —was found in a bin in Rembrandt’s Stuyvesant Ball will be held at Pier paintings from the Museum’s studio, awaiting use as a model for a Sixty on the Hudson. For more Ball collection and a few engravings New Testament composition. Today, information go to: www.thenaf.org. set Hals’s work in the context of seven paintings survive (from what *** his native Haarlem and help was likely eight originally) that fit New Netherland Institute, Box 2536, Empire State Plaza Station, Albany, NY 12220 Voice: 518–486–4815 | Fax: 518–473–0472 [email protected] | www.newnetherlandinstitute.org De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius 2 Until June 2, 2012. A new frontier lands of the colony, General Society of Mayflower exhibition has opened at the New relations with New England, Descendants, ISBN 0-930270-45-2. York State Museum in Albany. Hudson Valley foodways and Dutch 894 pp. plus xxxii, 134 ills., biblio- This exhibit, entitled “From the beer production, the endurance of graphy, index. Price is: $55 plus Collections,” will feature objects the Dutch legacy into nineteenth- $12 S&H. MA residents please add from many important collections, century New York, and contempo- 6.5% sales tax. Order from: May- including the South Street Seaport rary genealogical research on flower Families, PO Box 3297, Ply- Museum collection of over two colonial Dutch ancestors. mouth, MA 02361; 508-746-5058 million artifacts that arrived at the 238 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4384-3596-1. *** NYS Museum in 2006. Among the $34.95. www.sunypress.edu. Also by Jeremy Bangs, “Dutch objects that will be on view is a *** 1590 token from Amsterdam that Contributions to Religious was found in the cobbled floor of Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers Toleration,” in Church History, the warehouse built by Augustine and Sojourners. Leiden and the September 2010. Foundations of Plymouth Planta- Herrman. The cast of a basket as *** tion by Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs. well as its contents, retrieved from Empire at the Periphery: British the lot formerly owned by Cornelis Exalted in the 19th c. as virtuous exemplars of a proud pioneering Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and van Tienhoven, will also be the Development of the British featured. In addition, objects once spirit, and condemned in the 20th as crude oppressors of a peaceful Atlantic, 1621-1713 by Christian J. used and crafted by silversmith Koot. In this work Koot examines Daniel Van Voorhis, a later resident native people, the Pilgrims’ unavoidable importance in the the networks that connected British of Manhattan of Dutch ancestry, settlers in New York and the will be on display. narrative of American origins is reinforced annually in Thanks- Caribbean and Dutch traders in the Netherlands and in the Dutch Publications giving Day’s mythic commemora- tions. Do we not already know colonies in North America and the Caribbean, demonstrating that these A Beautiful and Fruitful Place more than enough about them? This interimperial relationships formed a Selected Rensselaerswijck Papers, book starts over, not simply to add incrementally to what is already core part of commercial activity in Volume 2. Edited by Elisabeth the early Atlantic World, operating Paling Funk and Martha Dickinson known about the Pilgrims in Leiden but instead to reconceive the alongside British trade. Koot Shattuck. New Netherland’s provides unique consideration of distinctive regional history as well question of who the Pilgrims were and what contributed to the choices how local circumstances shaped as the colony’s many relationships imperial development, reminding us with Europe and the seventeenth- that make them interesting. Leiden is where the character of the that empires consisted not only of century Atlantic world are featured elites dictating imperial growth in the second collection of papers Pilgrim Church and its subsequent colony took form. Controversies in from world capitals, but also of from the widely praised annual ordinary settlers in far-flung Rensselaerswijck Seminar. Leading politics and religion, customs of family life and society, obligations colonial outposts who often had scholars from both sides of the more in common with—and a Atlantic critique and offer the latest of labor and chances to play, questions of free will, democracy, greater reliance on—people from research on a dynamic range of foreign empires who shared their topics: the age of exploration, the separation of church and state, religious toleration, treatment of experiences of living at the edge of domestic life in New Netherland, a fragile, transitional world. the history and significance of the Indians – these form the matter of this book. 312 pages. ISBN: 9780814748831 West India Company, the complex $39.00. www.nyupress.org. era of Jacob Leisler, the southern Published and distributed by The De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius 3 *** multiple pasts that stretch back as Washington Avenue at Dove Street. The Edge of New Netherland, far as the Middle Ages, pasts whose The buffet lunch will begin at 12:00 written and illustrated by L.F. legacies continue to shape the noon, with the presentation Tantillo. Over three centuries ago, present. ISBN 9780674055803 commencing at 12:30 p.m., the Dutch colonized a large portion Harvard U Press. 502pp. $35.00 followed by a question and answer of the northeastern US. The area period. called New Netherland included NNRC News The University Club of Albany New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Foundation, Inc. is presenting this most of Connecticut, and some of Eric Ruijssenaars, the New event, and one need not be a Pennsylvania. The fur trade drove a Netherland Research Center’s first member of the University Club to frontier economy. New Netherland Senior Scholar in Residence, is the attend. The cost for the luncheon was far removed from the political founder of Dutch Archives, a and lecture is $25. Reservations are disputes of Europe, but not immune historical research firm in Leiden, required and may be made by to the consequences that ensued. the Netherlands. Although a calling the University Club at The Edge of New Netherland takes specialist in the history of Russia 518-463-1151 us back in time and gives us a and the Netherlands, he is also a Ruijssenaars will also moderate glimpse of an emerging nation from scholar of the Brontë sisters in a panel on the impact of the 1664 a Dutch and Swedish perspective. It Brussels and has published two English takeover of New is an evocative look back along the books on the subject. Currently he Netherland at UAlbany’s annual banks of the Delaware River and an is researching the life of Abraham “Researching New York overview of New Netherland’s Staats. Conference” on November 17 at the interesting domain. To order, send In 1642, Abraham Staats arrived New York State Library. For more $22.50 plus $5.00 for S/H to: The in the Dutch colony of New information: http://bit.ly/a2YHCM. New Netherland Institute, Box 2536 Netherland to serve as a surgeon on Other speaking engagements are Empire State Plaza Station, Albany, Kiliaen van Rensselaer’s vast currently being planned.
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