Dr Bram van Leuveren (𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺/𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮)

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🗣️ UUCEMS Publieksdag 'Sport en spel in de vroegmoderne tijd'.
📅 31 okt 2025, 13-17.30u.
🏛️ Johanna Huddiggebouw, 1.27, Utrecht.
📋 Programma en aanmelden: lnkd.in/efwEMBnM.

Yesterday @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social and I took students @humanitiesuu.bsky.social to The Loo Palace in Apeldoorn, the 17th-century hunting lodge of William III & Mary II. They interviewed curators Paul Rem, Hanna Klarenbeek, Kristin Duysters & Marit Brands on creative and global exchanges at court.

We also take on board the violent context of such creative exchanges: many of the objects on display at the The Loo Palace were financed with riches from the Dutch colonies in Asia & the Americas or stolen from these regions. Such violence enabled the courtly splendour of Dutch palaces like The Loo.

Our excursion is part of the module 'Creativity in the Early Modern City: Antwerp, Paris, and Amsterdam' @humanitiesuu.bsky.social that I coordinate and teach with @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social. The course explores transnational & global exchanges of creativity between French and Netherlandish cities.

Yesterday @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social and I took students @humanitiesuu.bsky.social to The Loo Palace in Apeldoorn, the 17th-century hunting lodge of William III & Mary II. They interviewed curators Paul Rem, Hanna Klarenbeek, Kristin Duysters & Marit Brands on creative and global exchanges at court.

Nothing planned yet for your lunch break next Wednesday? Please join the Lunch Time Talk of our department, 12-1pm, KNG80, 1.06, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. I'll talk about my research with Janneke Luns on a rare Netherlandish painting depicting a charivari - a riotous form of popular justice.

Students studied themes of Artus' work relating to the Antwerp-Amsterdam connection, Rubens' influence on the city hall, and the violent colonial context of the building's decorations, featuring marble representations of spices, vegetables, and fruits from the Republic's colonies overseas.

One of the unique selling points of the exhibition is that it displays clay models of Artus' sculptures close to or even opposite the final product at the old city hall - produced in expensive marble, offering a unique insight into Artus' working method!

Little known until now is the obvious influence that Rubens - a family friend of the Quellinus family - has had on the young Artus. More than once Artus modelled his sculptures after Rubens' work!

My colleague @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social and I took students to the fantastic new exhibition at the city hall, now a royal palace, about this sculptor: Artus Quellinus (1609-1668).

We were warmly welcomed by conservator Marjan Pantjes.

Did you know that the 17th-century city hall of Amsterdam, symbol of republican power in the Dutch Republic, was almost entirely decorated by a sculptor from Antwerp?

Onder luid tromgeroffel werd Maria de' Medici, de berooide koningin-moeder van Frankrijk, op 4/9/1631 onthaald in Antwerpen. Waarom werd een ballinge onthaald in de Scheldestad? Ik gaf er afgelopen vrij in Leiden een paper over voor het jaarcongres van Werkgroep 17e Eeuw. Gemist? Een artikel volgt!

Onder luid tromgeroffel werd Maria de' Medici, de berooide koningin-moeder van Frankrijk, op 4/9/1631 onthaald in Antwerpen. Waarom werd een ballinge onthaald in de Scheldestad? Ik gaf er afgelopen vrij in Leiden een paper over voor het jaarcongres van Werkgroep 17e Eeuw. Gemist? Een artikel volgt!

Colloque "Quatre mariages et un enterrement : fêtes et célébrations franco-polonaises (1645–1725)" 25-26/09 au château de Versailles, 27/09 à la Bibliothèque polonaise (Paris).

Infos et réservation 👉 www.chateauversailles-recherche.fr/francais/eve...

#Versaillesrecherche #Histoire #Pologne

🇫🇷J’ai visité la cathedral de Saint-Gatien de #Tours où les sculptures du #tombeau de François II et Marguerite de Foix, créé par le sculpteur Michel #Colombe au début des années 1500, sont temporairement visible grâce à son démontage pour restauration🔧. Regardez le rendu minutieux des drapes!🤭

🇫🇷J’ai visité la cathedral de Saint-Gatien de #Tours où les sculptures du #tombeau de François II et Marguerite de Foix, créé par le sculpteur Michel #Colombe au début des années 1500, sont temporairement visible grâce à son démontage pour restauration🔧. Regardez le rendu minutieux des drapes!🤭

Caché dans la campagne près de #Tour, le prieuré Saint-Cosme est la dernière demeure de Pierre de #Ronsard, «le prince de des poètes» et inventeur de #spectacles éphémères à la cour des derniers #Valois. Bien sûr, je devais visiter le monastère qui abrite également son logis et jardin!

Caché dans la campagne près de #Tour, le prieuré Saint-Cosme est la dernière demeure de Pierre de #Ronsard, «le prince de des poètes» et inventeur de #spectacles éphémères à la cour des derniers #Valois. Bien sûr, je devais visiter le monastère qui abrite également son logis et jardin!

📣 𝗨𝗨𝗖𝗘𝗠𝗦 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗸𝘀𝗱𝗮𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝘃𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗴𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗷𝗱.
🗓️ 31/10/2025, 13.00-17.00 uur.
ℹ️ Gratis deelname.
❗S.v.p. opgeven via deze link: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/qt9gEDkrFa.
🏛️‪@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social‬, Johanna Hudiggebouw, zaal 1.27.

📣 𝗨𝗨𝗖𝗘𝗠𝗦 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗸𝘀𝗱𝗮𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝘃𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗴𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗷𝗱.
🗓️ 31/10/2025, 13.00-17.00 uur.
ℹ️ Gratis deelname.
❗S.v.p. opgeven via deze link: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/qt9gEDkrFa.
🏛️‪@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social‬, Johanna Hudiggebouw, zaal 1.27.

👩‍🎨Learning by doing! I took students to the ArtLab of our Art History Department in Utrecht, where we recreated a 16th-century French recipe for an artificial cave or grotto, all the rage in early modern Europe. We made fake stones from real parchment: almost impossible to discern from actual stones!

👩‍🎨Learning by doing! I took students to the ArtLab of our Art History Department in Utrecht, where we recreated a 16th-century French recipe for an artificial cave or grotto, all the rage in early modern Europe. We made fake stones from real parchment: almost impossible to discern from actual stones!

Together with 150,000+ other Dutch people, I protested yet again against Israel's ongoing genocide and ecocide on Palestinians and Palestine 🇵🇸 This time we rallied in The Hague. @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, when will you finally cut ties with Israel? Free Palestine. Never again, is now #rodelijn

Together with 150,000+ other Dutch people, I protested yet again against Israel's ongoing genocide and ecocide on Palestinians and Palestine 🇵🇸 This time we rallied in The Hague. @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, when will you finally cut ties with Israel? Free Palestine. Never again, is now #rodelijn

Great example!

🗣️ Mark your calendar! I'll give a public talk on early modern robots.

🆘 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘱! 𝘈 𝘎𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘱: 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥.

🗓️ 11 June, 5.30-6.30pm.
🏫 Utrecht, Janskerkhof 2-3, room 0.21.
💶 Free for Art-ers, €1,- for externs.
📝 Sign up via this Google form: forms.gle/EX369NmT2xR8....

Early morning in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam where art history students @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social went hunting for everything festive🥳How are material traces of fleeting celebrations in the early modern Netherlands, like a banquet or parade, preserved & exhibited for contemporary audiences?🤔

Early morning in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam where art history students @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social went hunting for everything festive🥳How are material traces of fleeting celebrations in the early modern Netherlands, like a banquet or parade, preserved & exhibited for contemporary audiences?🤔

Van een zestiende-eeuws Venetiaans masker tot een piekfijn bewaard gebleven boek uit 1753 over spectaculaire vuurwerkkunst in Vlissingen: kunstgeschiedenisstudenten @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social mochten tijdens mijn cursus over vroegmoderne festivalkunst🥳 eeuwenoude objecten bestuderen🤩

Van een zestiende-eeuws Venetiaans masker tot een piekfijn bewaard gebleven boek uit 1753 over spectaculaire vuurwerkkunst in Vlissingen: kunstgeschiedenisstudenten @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social mochten tijdens mijn cursus over vroegmoderne festivalkunst🥳 eeuwenoude objecten bestuderen🤩