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Citizens’ Justice or Horrific Crimes? Conspiracy, Murder, and Printed Images in the Dutch Republic

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Center for Advanced Study and the Office of the Provost as part of the CAS 2022-23 Initiative “Conspiracy, Misinformation, and the Infodemic”
Date
Sep 28, 2022   7:00 pm  
Speaker
Maureen Warren
Registration
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Contact
Krannert Art Museum
E-Mail
kam-info@illinois.edu
Phone
12173331861
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Join in this Center for Advanced Study Scholar Lecture by KAM’s Curator of European and American Art Maureen Warren, titled “Citizens’ Justice or Horrific Crimes? Conspiracy, Murder, and Printed Images in the Dutch Republic.”

Again and again, leading politicians were murdered in the fledgling Dutch Republic.

The first military commander in the war for independence against Spain, William I, was assassinated in 1584. Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, statesman and founder of the Dutch East India Company, was executed on trumped up charges in 1618.

Johan de Witt, who opposed William I’s descendants gaining power, was lynched by an Orangist mob in 1672. In all three instances, visual print media shaped public opinion before or after events, helping to lay the groundwork for their fall from power or affirming those who gained power as a result.

This lecture will take a closer look at several broadsides on view this Fall at Krannert Art Museum in the exhibition Fake News and Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, a version of which will travel to University of San Diego Galleries and Smith College Museum of Art in Spring 2023 and Fall 2023.

Registration

Registration is required to attend this virtual presentation in English via zoom. | Register Online

 

For more information on this or other talks in the series, visit the CAS Website.

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