Bewogen beeld : op zoek naar Johan Maurits
Subtitle: Shifting image : in search of Johan Maurits
By: Edmund Abaka [and many others]
Publisher: Mauritshuis; Waanders Uitgevers
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Den Haag
Language: mul; dut; eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9789462622753
Subjects: History; Exhibitions; Mauritshuis (Hague, Netherlands)
Other titles: Shifting image : in search of Johan Maurits
Description: The Mauritshuis owes its name to the founder of the building: Johan Maurits, Count of Nassau-Siegen (1604-1679). The Royal Picture Gallery has been established there since 1822. The count plays an important role in the museum because of its significance for art, architecture and science. But Johan Maurits' life story is also interwoven with the colonial history of Dutch-Brazil and the transatlantic slave trade. In the exhibition 'Bewogen beeld - Looking for Johan Maurits', the history of Johan Maurits and Dutch-Brazil was viewed from different perspectives. We invited a group of 46 authors to contribute exhibition texts, with the result that each work was accompanied by four to six short texts. Together they give a rich picture of the ways in which you can look at the artworks - all from the permanent collection of the Mauritshuis - and the related histories. This book is a bundle of these texts especially written for 'Bewogen beeld'. Exhibition: Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands (04.04.-07.07.2019).
Notes: "Deze publicatie is verschenen naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling Bewogen beeld - Op zoek naar Johan Maurits, Mauritshuis, Den Haag, 4 april - 7 juli 2019" = "This publication accompanies the exhibition Shifting Image - In Search of Johan Maurits, Mauritshuis, The Hague, 4 April - 7 July 2019" [from colofon].

Text in Dutch and English.