Veille – Publication : Hoppe, Stephan , De Jonge, Krista und Breitling, Stefan (dir.) « The Interior as an Embodiment of Power The Image of the Princely Patron and its Spatial Setting (1400-1700) » (PALATIUM e-Publications, 2018)

This volume is dedicated to the study of the in- and outside of princely
residences and of their setup as the stage for a developing European
early modern court culture. At a time of increasing aristocratization
(1400-1700) and with many new nascent princely courts, both the princely
person and the performance of princely power required an appropriate
type of elaborate backdrop as its setting. Even though such an interest
in the palace interior and its functions is not entirely new, interior
architecture and court culture have only recently come to be seen as two
sides of the same medal: embodiment and expression of the princely
presence.
Therefore, the essays included focus in particular on
diverse types of functions that palaces and apartments, state rooms and
privy chambers had to fulfil at certain periods and in certain
residential contexts between the ages of feudalism and absolutism at
courts in London, Edinburgh, Neuburg am Inn, Karlstein and Prague,
Červený Kameň and Ludwigsburg. They compare and contrast specific local
examples with international trends such as, for example, the palace and
court ceremonial developed at or adapted to diverse circumstances in
Burgundy, Spain or Lithuania. Consequently, the aim of this volume
consists of the combination of personal and dynastic ambitions with
fashionable trends and court etiquette followed by royalty and minor
princes alike during a period of calculated magnificence. It considers
processional routes towards the presence of the ruler or towards its
image. Thereby, it helps to define the complementary roles of
residential interiors and of the courtly personnel at the same time.
The
ten papers collected in this volume were first presented at the
PALATIUM colloquium The Interior as an Embodiment of Power―The Image of
the Prince and its Spatial Setting (1400–1700), organized by Stephan
Hoppe, Krista De Jonge and Stefan Breitling and held in Bamberg in
October 2013.
Sommaire
Krista De Jonge – Preface
Stephan Hoppe, Krista De Jonge, Stefan Breitling – Introduction
Annamaria Ersek – Between Place and Function Notes on the Portrait Galleries in Charles IV’s Residences of Karlstein and Prague
Krista De Jonge –Ceremonial ‘Grey Areas’ On the Placing and Decoration of Semi-Public and Semi-Private Spaces in Burgundian-Habsburg Court Residences in the Low Countries (1450–1550)
Katherine Anne Wilson – Furnishing the Dukes with a Royal Reputation The Use of Chambers and Chapels at the Burgundian Court
Nicole Riegel – Hospitality and Splendour The Case of Schloss Neuburg am Inn, c.1530
Astrid Lang – Holbein’s Whitehall Mural for Henry VIII Spacing a Place for the King
Alexandra Nancy Johnson – Mary Stuart’s Inner Chamber at Holyrood An Embodiment of Power
Franciszek Skibiński – The Court of the Sun God Revisited Interiors of the Royal Villa in Wilanów in their Cultural and Political Context
Ingrid Halászová-Štibraná – Aristocratic Interiors of the Kaisersaal Type from the Mid-seventeenth Century in the Kingdom of Hungary A Case of Habsburg Imperial Iconography in the Lange Saal of the Pálffy Residence at Červený Kameň (Slovakia)
Ulrike Seeger – Vienna, Prague, Paris and Augsburg The Provisioning of Interior Decoration in the Ludwigsburg Residence
Annette C. Cremer – The Model of a Régence Palace Interior The Dollhouse Collection Mon Plaisir in Arnstadt/ Germany (1690-1750)
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