Volume 51, Number 13 · August 12, 2004
Dutch Treat
By Benjamin Moser
Discovering Brazil with Albert Eckhout
an exhibition at the Mauritshuis, The Hague, March 27–June 27, 2004
Albert Eckhout: A Dutch Artist in Brazil
catalog of the exhibition edited by Quentin Buvelot
The Hague: Royal Cabinet ofPaintings Mauritshuis/Zwolle: Waanders, 159 pp., E39.95
In 1578, King Sebastião I of Portugal decided to re-Christianize Morocco. The crusade would have been a dubious proposition in the best of times. This one, however, would have taken a miracle. The King was little more than a boy, and a boy so inbred that he only had four great-grandparents, one (or two) of whom, Queen Juana, was known as 'La Loca.' After the Portuguese army crossed into Africa, events took a predictable course: the forces of Sebastião were smashed at Alcazarquivir, south of Tangiers. The young Portuguese king simply vanished.
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