HART PhD student Marge Steurbaut wrapped up another successful presentation at the “Dutch Albany in History & Art: The 46th New Netherland Institute Conference” in Albany, NY last week with her talk “The Glazing of Beverwijck’s First protestant Church: Colonial Power Visualized.”
Marge’s presentation was based on an article of the same title that she has been working on the past few months for the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek which examines three rare Dutch colonial stained-glass panels found in the colony of New Netherland in the 1600s. These three pieces are currently the only known colonial stained glass of the Americas with one panel now housed in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the other two at the Albany Institute of Art and History. In her article, Marge explores how these panels fit within the tradition of heraldic stained-glass making in the Early Modern Dutch Republic and its many colonies while addressing their current attribution to Evert Duyckinck.
In this joint conference with the Albany Institute of History & Art and the New York State Library, presenters expanded upon themes explored in two new exhibitions at the Institute, “Delights of the Senses: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life, Featuring Paintings from The Leiden Collection” and “People of the Waters that are Never Still: A Celebration of Mohican Art and Culture.”
