CEMH Digital Talk: Marisa Bass (Art History, Yale University)
“Exoskeletons in the Closet: Nature and Commemoration in the Dutch Republic”
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The seventeenth-century Netherlands was the context for the creation of the first public monuments expressly designed as such in a modern republic. It was also a context in which the passion for naturalia and curiosities of all kinds flourished through networks of global trade and knowledge production. Ranging from nautilus shells to medals and anatomical treatises, this lecture explores the neglected connections between commemoration and collecting--and between public monuments and private museums--manifest in the material culture of the Dutch Republic.