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(Dutch) For a period of seven years, Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen (1604-1679) was governor of north-east Brazil, then a colony of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. During this time, he commissioned drawings and paintings from painters he had brought along especially for this purpose, including Albert Eckhout, Frans Post and Abraham Willaerts. On his return to the Republic in 1644, Johan Maurits commissioned Jacob van Campen, the architect of the Mauritshuis built during his stay in Brazil, to design a decorative programme for the interior based on the special imagery he had brought with him from Brazil. That there must have been a grand decoration plan for tapestries at the Mauritshuis under the direction of Jacob van Campen, with Brazil as its theme, is a new insight. Drawing on hitherto unknown sources and in particular the eyewitness account of the Harderwijk regent Ernst Brinck (1582-1649), which has not been consulted before, Michiel Roscam Abbing meticulously unravels Jacob van Campen's - only partly realised - ingenious decoration plan for rooms, ceilings and staircases of the Mauritshuis. Visitors to the main upper room no longer needed to cross the ocean to see Brazil.
Author: Michiel Roscam Abbing
Dutch Hardcover 9789088031120 26 February 2021 192 pages
